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Quotes About Intolerance

To burn one book is to burn the entire library.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hatred is a blindman Seeing only darkness
~ Terri Guillemets
Certain Americans in western states, having lost their Indians and with few blacks at hand, naturally turned to hating Mexicans
~ James A. Michener
But just as a society must have a scapegoat, so hatred must have a symbol.
~ James Baldwin
one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure, and, since the entire race has been mysteriously indicted, no reason not to attempt to destroy it root and branch.
~ James Baldwin
But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
~ James Frey
Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.
~ Larry Kramer
I want to remind everyone that we have a no alcohol policy at Salesforce. Alcohol is a drug, and having alcohol on a Salesforce premise is simply unfair to the Ohana who either do not want it or are intolerant of it.
~ Marc Benioff
Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.
~ Ana Navarro
Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people.
~ Wentworth Miller
Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.
~ Debasish Mridha
I can't stand most things that I see.
~ Meryl Streep
There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This is what the Republican party stands for, though: racism.
~ Ed Schultz
Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.
~ Haruki Murakami
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
~ Al-Jahiz
Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
~ Jean Rostand
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
~ Heinrich Heine
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head
~ Hermann Broch
A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.
~ Heinrich Heine
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
~ John Selden
I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.
~ Tommy Lee