Quotes About Intolerance

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

Intolerance is a beautiful thing...There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

But I mind fanatics, the ones who try to impose their beliefs on you.

German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men.

No soporto a la gente que se cree moralmente superior. Nadie la soporta.