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Quotes About Intolerance

It's really easy to persuade people to be hateful
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I don't like men. They're saying they're going to bash my head in.
~ Lil B
Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
~ Voltaire
There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
~ Will Rogers
... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.
~ Caitlin Thomas
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
~ Damian Lewis
Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.
~ Marisha Pessl
I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.
~ Phyllis McGinley
There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.
~ Heinrich Heine
Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.
~ Heinrich Heine
The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.
~ Jess Row
...cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....
~ Arundhati Roy
You will never change what you tolerate.
~ Joel Osteen
Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.
~ Gregory Colbert
The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.
~ Mira Grant, Blackout
I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.
~ Barack Obama
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
~ Gordon Allport
That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
It's pathetic how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great"-Hans Junior
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief