Quotes About Intolerance

The simple fact is there are no laws you can pass to stop people racially abusing black footballers. So the solution is to come up with something that doesn't make people want to abuse black footballers in the first place.

When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.

Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

There are fear mongers who talk about Islam as somehow it is an incubator of hate... remember Christians, like the Westboro Baptist Church, are just as capable of promoting intolerance.

We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.

I had unwittingly crossed a line. Not only was Hikari-chan an outcast, but she was also a half-breed, fathered out of wedlock by an American GI. It was all too much for Auntie Oima, who couldn't contain her fear that I would be contaminated by association. Keeping my reputation unsullied was one of her major preoccupations.

Extremist, closed communities are ripe for violence.

Intolerance. The person with a "closed" mind on any subject seldom gets ahead. Intolerance means that one has stopped acquiring knowledge. The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.

En esta vida lo único que sienta cátedra es el prejuicio.

In this world, the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

Zlo?a pretpostavlja moralnu odluku, nakanu i stanoviti promišljaj. Debili ili prostak ne razmišlja niti rezonira. On djeluje nagonski, kao zvijer, uvjeren da postupa ispravno, da uvijek ima pravo i ponosan je što podjebava, s oproštenjem, svakoga tko mu se u?ini druk?ijim, pa bilo to bojom, vjerom, jezikom, nacionalnoš?u ili, kao u slu?aju gospodina Federica, slobodnim aktivnostima. Na svijetu nam treba više istinski zlih ljudi, a manje potpunih budaletina.

That sorry specimen is both pedantic and corrupt. A fascist buttock polisher," Fermín declared

Why are books burned? Through stupidity, ignorance, hatred...goodness only knows.

Trying to educate a bigot is like shining light into the pupil of an eye—it constricts.

lactose intolerance. This was a splashy way of saying she had stomachaches when she drank milk.

For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question Who am I? recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not . The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it.

Cuz all they have is bigotry and they're calling it Christianity.

The human mind is simply not able to grasp this terrible truth: a nation was transformed into a killing machine programmed to destroy millions of innocent people for no reason other than that they were different.

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.

As Wulkan entered the mess with his wrenches, he saw above the door the inscription, Für Juden und Hunde Eintritt Verboten - Entrance forbidden to Jews and dogs.

He was hissed on the streets of Frankfurt, stones were thrown, a group of workmen jeered him and called out that he ought to have been burned with the Jews.