Quotes About Intolerance

The Christians and Jews eat defiled pig meat and swill poisonous alcohol. Buddhist and Muslim Sri Lankans blamed the wine-oriented Christmas celebrations of 2004 for the immediately following tsunami. Catholics are dirty and have too many children. Muslims breed like rabbits and wipe their bottoms with the wrong hand. Jews have lice in their beards and seek the blood of Christian children to add flavor and zest to their Passover matzos. And

Perfectionists and zealots can break but not bend; in my experience they are subject to burnout from diminishing returns or else, to borrow Santayana's definition of the fanatic, they redouble their efforts just when they have lost sight of their ends.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.)

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptu- ous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. There is one more charge to be added to the bill of indictment. With a necessary part of its collective mind, religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.

The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.

There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them.

That's what makes most places utterly impossible - the people. They're so completely hateful. They want everybody to conform to their beastly narrow little way of looking at things. And if one happens not to, one's treated as something unspeakable. And then there's nothing for it but to leave at once.

Para ser tolerante, é preciso fixar os limites do intolerável.

la intolerancia salvaje se ataja de raíz, a través de una educación constante que empiece desde la más tierna infancia, antes de que se escriba en un libro y antes de que se convierta en costra de conducta demasiado espesa y dura.

The fact was, these issues had become so urgent and feelings ran so high that tolerance was too difficult. All over France the various groups isolated themselves, and didn't go where they would meet their political rivals.

In the global media community, "intolerance" does not denote so much China's mass incarceration of Muslim Uighurs in reeducation camps, or destruction of Tibetan culture, or strangulation of Hong Kong's democracy, or systemic racism shown African students and resident workers in China. Instead, America's purported sin is occasional consideration of recalibrating its open-borders policies and requiring legality before entering the country.

But, it was a lie. For people like us, anyway. Folks who are from the wrong place, or have the wrong color skin, or speak the wrong language, or pray to the wrong God.

Jews. Communists. Homosexuals. Freemasons. Jehovah's Witnesses. Do you know these people?

It was a terrible idea to live a life dictated by someone else's prejudices.

Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.

Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant." "But what if I don't want to be Jewish?

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.

white tears" does not refer to all pain but to the particular emotional fragility a white person experiences when they find racial stress so intolerable they become hypersensitive and defensive, focusing the stress back to their own bruised ego.

We can't heal our broken system by sitting in judgment. Within each of us lies the seeds of intolerance and hate. If we simply declare others wrong and ourselves right, we deepen the divide.

Anti-Semitism is a cancer

it was just that prejudiced people linked together things they didn't like.

prejudiced people linked together things they didn't like.

Only later did the media begin to take extremist groups seriously. By then they had committed racist murders in several cities— starting with the liberal Jewish talk show host Alan Berg, who was shot down in his driveway by a white nationalist group—then also bombing a government building in Oklahoma City, shooting Jewish children in a child care center in Los Angeles, and attempting to bomb a Martin Luther King parade in Spokane.

That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.