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Quotes About Intolerance

Nathan, your story, as far as Gentiles are concerned, is about one thing and one thing only. Listen to me, before you go. It is about kikes. Kikes and their love of money.
~ Philip Roth
The banning of books is the greatest statement of both intolerance and stupidity. A country which does this is just giving a lobotomy to itself.
~ David Frawley
It's time for our warring tribes to understand a simple reality: that to embrace illiberalism and intolerance is to court dissolution.
~ Unknown
Intellectually I know free speech will prevail--it almost always does--and I know that some good conversations come out of it. But it's still harrowing to have to face such intolerance on your home ground, and it never feels good to know that people have to go through that.
~ David Levithan
I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.
~ David Sedaris
the very first thing that happens with any zealot is that he removes his brain just in case any thoughts that might challenge his zealotry should happen to stray into it.
~ David Weber
The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
~ Dean Koontz
You'se different from me. Ah can't stand black niggers. Ah don't blame de white folks from hatin' 'em 'cause Ah can't stand 'em mahself. 'Nother thing, Ah hates tuh see folks lak me and you mixed up wid 'em. Us oughta class off.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It was so normal for me to have racial abuse spat at me and then when I moved to Dunfermline, there were a group of boys who made up a racist social media page geared at me.
~ Ncuti Gatwa
There is no room for anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, and the leaders need to show that.
~ Eric Greitens
A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.
~ Hosea Ballou
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
~ Hosea Ballou
Jew-hating was back-of course Jew-hating was back. Soon it would be full-blown Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism. These things didn't go away. There was nowhere for them to go. They where indestructible, non-biodegradable. They waited in the great rubbish tip that was the human heart.
~ Howard Jacobson
You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.
~ Howard Jacobson
you can't have belief without intolerance.
~ Howard Jacobson
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.
~ Unknown
Monotheism has also been recognized as inherently intolerant.
~ Ibn Warraq
I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
~ Conrad Black
L'historiador Philippe Ariès ho formula de la següent manera: "El sentiment de família, el sentiment de classe i tal vegada el de raça apareixen com les manifestacions de la pròpia intolerància davant la diversitat i del propi patiment per la uniformitat".
~ Corinne Maier
The historian Philippe Aries puts it like this: "Family feelings, feelings of class, and perhaps in some cases of race are manifestations of the same intolerance of diversity, of the same need for uniformity.
~ Corinne Maier
Why do ants alone have parasites whose intoxicating moistures they drink and for whom they will sacrifice even their young? Because as they are the most highly socialized of insects, so their lives are the most intolerable.
~ Cyril Connolly
Peter's sensitiveness of perception was acute. He knew exactly what the independent old farmer-ferryman was thinking; he understood and in a measure sympathised with his feelings. Peter was like that — he could always see the other fellow's point of view. His mother had been immensely large-hearted and tolerant, and she had brought up her son to loathe intolerance as one of the deadly sins.
~ D.E. Stevenson
At my grade school, the Sisters of St. Joseph made me hate Communists, then intolerance, and finally everything that could break the charmed pattern of our lives.
~ Unknown
There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
~ Ian Mckellen