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Quotes About Intolerance

Honey understood that every dickhead she encountered was not necessarily a menace to her son, yet still she struggled with a rabid intolerance of callousness and folly, both of which abounded in South Florida.
~ Carl Hiaasen
If we're absolutely sure that our beliefs are right, and those of others wrong; that we are motivated by good, and others by evil; that the King of the Universe speaks to us, and not to adherents of very different faiths; that it is wicked to challenge conventional doctrines or to ask searching questions; that our main job is to believe and obey—then the witch mania will recur in its infinite variations down to the time of the last man.
~ Carl Sagan
El fanatismo, el temor, la esperanza, el ardiente debate, la oración callada, la generosidad ejemplar, la intolerancia estrecha de miras y la necesidad profunda de nuevas ideas, todo era como una epidemia que recorría febrilmente la superficie del minúsculo planeta Tierra.
~ Carl Sagan
Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.
~ Terence McKenna
For despite the fact that Man was the only known Race, he still managed to find differences between himself and his brothers and sisters—differences of the coloration of their skin, of the location of their homeland, of the nature of their politics—and Man distrusted anything that was different.
~ Terry Brooks
Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.
~ Terry Pratchett
The enemy wasn't men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin' stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid.
~ Terry Pratchett
Something as deeply personal as faith should not be subjected to another person's contempt.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
~ Theodor Adorno
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, said Burke, is for good men to do nothing; and most good men nowadays can be relied upon to do precisely that. Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
~ Beck
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
~ Reza Aslan
My best friend in the Marines, her name is Kim, said one day while we were in Iraq that homosexuals in the Forces should be put on the front line because they deserved to die. This was my best friend talking.
~ Liz Carmouche
I'm 100 million percent not homophobic. I despise that label being attached to me.
~ James Arthur
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
~ Karen Armstrong
if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In
~ Karl Popper
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. [...] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
~ Karl R. Popper
If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
~ Karl R. Popper
To hurt the Negro and avoid the JewIs the curriculum.
~ Karl Shapiro
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
many of these left wing idiots tried to fight Kellen and his Nazi followers using logic and rational arguments. Are you kidding me? That shit never works. What the country needed was someone who would make fun of them for the idiotic, small dick, insecure, evil fucks that they were.
~ Gary Whitta
Christians. They're determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones." The Lady's face hardened. "This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.
~ Brom
Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?
~ Brom
Toleration is odious to the intolerant.
~ burke edmund iii