Quotes About Intolerance

But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

From bigots who hawk their goddoor-to-door, preserve us.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family, ' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

Because people fear those who are different. And fear can make people do stupid things.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

anything with a whiff of redneck or white trash upsets me so much that I hope never to be close to any of its components.

Hell was born when some decided others weren't people.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

Each of them, living, was intolerable to the other, and in fury, they fell to it.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others? Robert E

Where men burn books, they will also in the end burn men.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.