Quotes About Intolerance

Growing up in the U.S means that there are people out there who hate you just because you are what you are..be it black or rich, Jewish or Irish Catholic, whatever. Anything different from the bigot. There are some small minded people out there who have got to think they are better than anyone else. So it goes.

I don't much care for intolerant right-wing Republicans, but these folks taught me I don't much care for intolerant left-wing Democrats either.

Far from being a line of demarcation against Trump, January 6 would result in a rehabilitation of the former president that would propel a narrative of denial, lies, and autocratic intolerance of dissent that has become the hallmark of the GOP.

Hasan Pasha also gave the green light for Turks and Greeks to take whatever action they pleased against any Albanians they found: killing them was not a crime. Continuing his march, he executed all the Albanians he encountered, setting fire to a monastery where other were hiding and offering five sequins for every Albanian head brought him.

This is how planet Earth earned its shameful reputation of undervaluing people by ethnicity, religion, gender, and whatnot. At some point man's impression was labeled the voice of God. But man's impression always contained the blind flaw of humanness.

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

You sound like you're mentally deficient. And possibly Chinese.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

What we eventually run up against are the forces of humourlessness, and let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Bad logic was an early warning sign for prejudice.

They didn't hate her when you were in high school. They made fun of her. She was the butt of jokes. But they didn't hate her. That's what people do now. They don't disagree, they hate.

The awareness at each moment of what is intolerable in the world (tortures, oppression, unhappiness, hunger, the camps) is not tolerable: it bends, sinks, and he who exposes himself to it sinks with it. The awareness is not awareness in general. All knowledge of what everywhere is intolerable will at once lead knowledge astray. We live thus between straying and a half-sleep. To know this is already enough to stray.

I have always had an intolerance of orthodoxy, even when I agreed with it, and I was interested in producing a lively page full of unexpected insights rather than simply rote repetitions of the party line.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the root of all the evil that is in the world

The flip side of this is that they will not tolerate criticism and can be scathing of anyone who criticizes them. They will often attack and belittle the person who is being critical, instead of dealing with the points the person is making. They do this usually because they have no defence against the criticism, they have been found out. So it's easier to destroy the reputation of the critical person instead.

Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.