Quotes About Intolerance

We're living in weird times, Streak. I bet forty percent of the country wouldn't mind firing up the ovens as long as the smokestacks are blowing downwind.

What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?

Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.

Unfortunately, in this country, when we have the opportunity to be bigots in private, we take it every time.

I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States.

I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

As a strong woman, there are things I would never put up with.

I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British.

Virulent anti-Semitism is, of course, a staple of militant Islamist ideology.

In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there's a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just voicing the injustice empowers the movement and everybody else around them.

Enlightened types tended to place their faith in progress, freedom, and the improvability of mankind. As the intellectual historian Caroline Winterer put it, "To be enlightened was to be filled with hope."54 The opposite of enlightenment, states her predecessor Carl Becker, was "superstition, intolerance, tyranny."55

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

One of the most pathetic — and dangerous — signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

The first thing they heard was the voices of an angry mob shouting "Salope! Salope!"—the

I know people aren't sure about men who look like I do. People don't see the beard as a bit of hair. I've been shouted at, called some horrible names, and when I first came to Worcester I noticed people crossing the road to avoid me.

In the States anything dealing with religion, people go nuts, because they are nuts.

Atheists are just as obnoxious if not more obnoxious than zealots.