Quotes About Intolerance

Perhaps the world would soon become one vast incinerator for burning people.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

People tend 2 choke that which they do not understand

Those who make their patriotism a vehicle for intolerance are very dangerous.

That's understandable, but it also shows we are a bit intolerant of alien intelligences.

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People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

True and genuine inward certainty does not in the least fear outward analysis, nor does truth resent honest criticism. You should never forget that intolerance is the mask covering

The bigots are winning," he said gloomily. "Both kinds of bigots…" The ambassador finished his sentence for him: "And the only losers are the learned." They all shook their heads.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

A fundamentalist mind is a mind that has become rigid. First the heart closes, then the mind becomes hardened into a view, then you can justify your hatred of another human being because of what they represent and what they say and do.

People bitch like lunatics but are Nazis nonetheless.

If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the ways in which we discriminate until they are forcefully pointed out to us. A liberation movement demands an expansion of our moral horizons, so that practices that were previously regarded as natural and inevitable are now seen as intolerable.

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

Anti-cat is one jump away from anti-Semitism.

Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me.

Why is it," the unhappy teacher finally asked, "that for centuries people have hated you Jews?" Amy rose to her feet. She was stunned. "Don't ask me that!" the girl said—"ask the madmen who hate us!" And she had nothing further to do with Miss Giddings as a friend—or with anyone else who asked her anything about what they couldn't possibly understand.