Quotes About Intolerance

But his main character flaw was that of so many French revolutionaries: a zeal for human rights so self-righteous that it translated into intolerance for the actual human beings around him. Brissot

they failed to move on, as wars and animosity to those who were different or had different religious beliefs destroyed them.

It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated—hated for things we have no control over and cannot change.

But then Job was a man. Invisibility was intolerable to men. What complaint would a female Job dare to put forth? And if, having done so, and He deigned to remind her of how weak and ignorant she was, where was the news in that? What shocked Job into humility and renewed fidelity was the message a female Job would have known and heard every minute of her life.

One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge.

But each in its own way was affected by the growing intolerance of immoderate inequality, initiating public provision to compensate for private inadequacy.

Conservatism and passive acceptance... They can't think for themselves. Anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling. Makes me want to puke.

The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.

Small men curse what they cannot understand.

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

But as Stephen Fry has so eloquently noted, all great atrocities and genocides first begin with marginalizing then dehumanizing a specific group of people, whether Jewish, Gypsy or Rwandan.

Humor has always been my tool of choice when confronting intolerance or ignorance, not only because "funny" material is much more likely to be shared (and thus seen), but also because I firmly believe we all, conservative or liberal, need to laugh more, even at ourselves, and even while standing up for our beliefs.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

twenty-one-year-old white male Dylan Roof shot and killed nine African Americans as they attended a Bible study at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. One reason that he gave for the massacre is that, "Y'all are raping our white women.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist.