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Quotes About Intolerance

During the next two weeks I am going to be pretty intolerant of behavior that demonstrates an absence of trust, or a focus on individual ego. I will be encouraging conflict, driving for clear commitments, and expecting all of you to hold each other accountable. I will be calling out bad behavior when I see it, and I'd like to see you doing the same. We don't have time to waste.
~ Patrick Lencioni
I am going to be pretty intolerant of behavior that demonstrates an absence of trust, or a focus on individual ego. I will be encouraging conflict, driving for clear commitments, and expecting all of you to hold each other accountable. I will be calling out bad behavior when I see it, and I'd like to see you doing the same. We don't have time to waste.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Whereas I had not meant anything so illiberal as a national reflexion, of course; only that I hated Papists.
~ Patrick O'Brian
These days, though, tolerance means that you accept the other person's views as being true or legitimate. If you claim that someone is wrong, you can get accused of being intolerant--even though, ironically, the person making the charge of intolerance isn't being accepting of your beliefs.
~ Paul Copan
The point is, however: God save us all from the moral zealot who places himself above the law and is willing to burn my house down, and yours, providing he feels he is sufficiently right and I sufficiently wrong.
~ Unknown
His fellow German socialist and labor organizer Ferdinand Lassalle, Marx referred to as a "greasy Jew," "the little kike," "water-polack Jew," "Jew Braun," "Yid," "Izzy," "Wily Ephraim," "Baron Itzig," and "the Jewish Nigger.
~ Paul Kengor
Como si no bastara con los comunistas, ahora son los homosexuales exhibiéndose en el campo, haciendo todas sus cochinadas al aire libre. Es el colmo.
~ Unknown
What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
~ Wallace Stevens
Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.
~ Frank Zappa
Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.
~ Louis Kronenberger
[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
~ Tacitus
Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.
~ Pim Fortuyn
Anyone who expects a person to change something as private and personal as who they hold in their arms at night needs to change their own judgmental attitude.
~ Alex Sanchez
We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it.
~ David Baldacci
never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.
~ David Baldacci
Hemingway had always considered ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.
~ David Baldacci
ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.
~ David Baldacci
Because they were both young, she was intolerant and he was stubborn.
~ David Eddings
I know bashing, Pat, and this was unabashed bashing at its most fascist.
~ David Foster Wallace
He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.
~ William Shakespeare
If there are Jews in this group, you have no right to live more than two weeks.' Then he said, 'Any nuns here? Like the priests, you have one month. All the rest, three months.
~ William Styron
This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put!
~ Winston Churchill
There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery — a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.
~ Winston Churchill