Quotes About Intolerance

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

He, who was so monumentally intolerant by his very nature, was strangely tolerant of one human condition—a man's morals. No other party in Germany came near to attracting so many shady characters. As we have seen, a conglomeration of pimps, murderers, homosexuals, alcoholics and blackmailers flocked to the party as if to a natural haven. Hitler did not care, as long as they were useful to him.

I am a bigot. I'm what they called a 'multibigot.' . . . A unibigot is a racist. A multibigot is just a prick.

It is the Jews and not us that everyone is against," he wrote. "If the Jews would keep their silly mouths shut they could buy up the whole country.

If, say, she suspects someone in the family or the kibbutz of adopting a right-wing position or if they dare to say a kind word about the settlers or, God forbid, begin to find just a little bit of religion—then she'll unleash an ungodly terror, fire and brimstone.

One of the few points of agreement between Anglican Virginians and Puritan New Englanders was their common loathing of Quakers.

The bigotry of theologians [is] a malady which seems almost incurable.

Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,

There is rioting in the suburbs; an openly racist party sits in Riksdagen, the parliament; intolerance is growing; fascism is on the rise and there are homeless people and beggars everywhere. In many ways Sweden has become a shameful nation.

But the world had gone mad, in his opinion. Lies and stupidity were more widespread than ever before. Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything, sometimes even penetrating the discussions within his own, otherwise sensible team.