Quotes About Intolerance

The wise response to intolerance is not more intolerance or self-righteousness; it is a coming together across the ideological spectrum of people who want to make democracies more effective.

Bahá'í teachings have certain safeguards against religious intolerance. Bahá'í writings contain statements that affirm freedom of conscience, the right to different religious beliefs, or to no religious belief. Bahá'ís are told not to discriminate in any way against those who are not Bahá'ís, and children born into Bahá'í families are free to choose their own spiritual paths.

Of course, everyone is intolerant of something or someone.

Ah, well... I started to say, and then stopped. So that was where he was going; I'd heard it before. Richard had told me that I'd not been standing in my mother's shoes in 1942, when I was born; he'd said I couldn't, or shouldn't, judge her. It was my not forgiving her that irked him-it was my intolerance of her intolerance that bugged him.

not simple intolerance but the tolerance of intolerance, which allows the intolerance to persist.

It's bullshit that those two had no known illnesses—they had sexual intolerance up the wazoo!" Nora was raving. "They had incurable hatred of sexual differences!" Nora shouted.

Ce n'était pas là l'un des points forts de Garp : la tolérance à l'égard des intolérants. Les fous le rendaient fou. On aurait dit qu'il se sentait personnellement révolté de les voir céder à la folie en partie, sans doute, parce que lui même devait si souvent lutter pour se comporter de façon sensée.

Wars were made by something ignorant in the human heart

Babbage was a brilliant mathematician but found human beings difficult to deal with. His intolerance of street musicians led to an organized campaign against him: his London home in Portland Place was bombarded by noise at all hours and abusive signs were hung in local shops.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto

America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

I nazisti odiavano gli ebrei più di quanto odiassero gli zingari. E però gli altri prigionieri disprezzavano gli zingari più degli ebrei. Il fatto era che nessuno, a parte le puttane e i ladri, sembrava disprezzare gli ebrei, mentre tutti si permettevano di disprezzare gli zingari.

Once individuals are identified as belonging to an outgroup, there seems to be no limit to he human capacity for cruelty.

You can scream you're Indian, you can disavow your religion, you can even be the next incarnation of Krishna for all your Hindu countrymen will care. Their HRM will pull down your pants and check your foreskin and slaughter you just the same.

Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or to remain Catholic, it was a terrible time. For once the original religion fragments, which religion then leads to salvation?

She wasn't sure what Mississippi was, but it must be a horrible thing if it was used as a mantra for the guns

and a member of a neo-Nazi party and

Why, they're the dirtiest guys in any town. They're the same ones that burned the houses of old German people during the war. They're the same ones that lynch Negroes. They like to be cruel. They like to hurt people, and they always give it a nice name, patriotism or protecting the constitution.

If she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.