Quotes About Intolerance

Prägen Sie sich immerhin ein, daß Toleranz zum Verbrechen wird, wenn sie dem Bösen gilt.

Toleranz wird zum Verbrechen, wenn sie dem Bösen gilt.

Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his right mind. p. 31

that does not distinguish Germans from Europeans in general—or from human beings in general, when it comes to vile or vicious things being said or done to any number of ethnic or other minorities in countries around the world.

Perhaps the most obvious paradox of Christian nationalism is that it preaches love but everywhere practices intolerance, even hate.

The judicial strategists of the Christian Right claim that all they want is "equal access" and "toleration." But that isn't in fact all they want. They don't want equality; they want control. They don't want toleration; they want the opportunity to practice their intolerance. They don't want their religion to be included in the schools; they want the schools to be absorbed within their religion.

I would be a Christian, except for all the Christians.

The smaller the world one lives in, the deeper and stronger their hatred can grow. It is like water poured into a dish.

Puritanism—the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. —H. L. Mencken (1949)

Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.

It's probably those lactose-intolerant freaks. We all know there's nothing cool about intolerance.

Los rebeldes que llegan al poder mediante la rebelión son intolerantes con los demás rebeldes y sus rebeliones. Cuando Absalón se enfrente con la rebelión, se convertirá en un tirano. Su perversidad será diez veces la que ahora le atribuye a tu rey. El aplastará la rebelión y gobernará con mano de hierro... y mediante el terror. Eliminará toda oposición. Esta es siempre la última etapa de las rebeliones altisonantes.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

I don't have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

The hardened soul melts at the tones of the singer, at the unspeakable pathos of the sounds that cannot lie; one almost believes—one believes at least in the belief of others. At last one understands, and is purged of intolerance and cynical contempt, and would kneel with the rest, in sheer human sympathy!

y pienso en lo que molaría un Dios así; uno que odiara a los putos cristianos, a los musulmanes, a los judíos y a todos los demás capullos que le tocaran los huevos.

Concerning the blindness and bigotry of people, the pleasures of hatred rise superior even to the instinct of self-preservation.

The Belascos' garden remained deaf to the defamatory propaganda campaign against the Japanese, who were accused of unfair competition against American farmers and fishermen, threatening white women's virtue with their insatiable lust, and corrupting American society by their Oriental, anti-Christian ways.

Aquí, en este mundo que dejaste atrás, a Dios lo han secuestrado los hombres. Han creado unas religiones disparatadas, que no entiendo cómo han sobrevivido durante siglos y siguen expandiéndose. Son implacables, predican amor, justicia y caridad, y para imponerlas cometen atrocidades. Los señores muy principales que propagan estas religiones juzgan, castigan, fruncen el ceño ante la alegría, el placer, la curiosidad y la imaginación.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.