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Quotes About Intolerance

and I do not like french poodle people because a french poodle people is a bastard everywhere
~ Unknown
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
~ Michael Caine
What gives me so much pause, and makes me feel so badly, [is] that the country is willing to be that intolerant and not understand the empathy that's necessary to understand other groups' situations.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
Many Christians actually believe they are being charitable by proclaiming that they "hate the sin, not the sinner," which is not dissimilar to what Christians declared just before torching women as witches to save their souls, or when Christians called for pogroms against Jews for being Christ killers.
~ Michael Shermer
This is not to minimize the emotional undercurrent of mindless bigotry, but merely to suggest that if you sincerely (however wrongly) believe that X is responsible for the ruination of all and everything that you hold dear, stamping out X follows like night follows day.
~ Michael Shermer
J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?
~ Michel Houellebecq
Haluja lietsotaan sietämättömyyteen saakka ja sitten tehdään niiden toteuttaminen yhä mahdottomammaksi; se oli ainoa periaate, jolle länsimainen yhteiskunta perustui.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Cuanto más monoteísta es una religión, piénselo, querido señor, más inhumana y cruel resulta; y de todas las religiones, el islam es la que impone un monoteísmo más radical.
~ Michel Houellebecq
We deserve a marketplace that rejects homophobic bigotry, and covering means accepting something less than that.
~ Unknown
La verdad? La verdad [...] es acaso algo terrible, algo intolerable, algo mortal; la gente sencilla no podría vivir con ella.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
In other words, they were unwilling to tolerate conservative speech, which they were intolerant of conservative speech.
~ Unknown
Maybe the source of my headache is the recent letter, written by a feminist to my dean and my chancellor, who also happens to be feminist, calling for me to be fired. She wrote the letter because I wrote a little paragraph in my nationally published column suggesting feminists are intolerant of free speech. Maybe I shouldn't be allowed to say that.
~ Unknown
Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
The Japanese didn't want Koreans to live near them, because they weren't clean, they lived with pigs, and the children had lice. Also, Koreans were said to be even
~ Min Jin Lee
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
~ Unknown
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
~ Unknown
Hugo se ocupa de encolerizar a sus seguidores y de demonizar a sus opositores, a quienes no trata como rivales políticos, sino como enemigos mortales que no tienen derecho a existir.
~ Moisés Naím
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
Fanaticism is the shortest path to ignorance.
~ Unknown
I think "tolerance" is being seen for what it is, a low-grade post-Enlightenment version of "love." It is often remarked that those who hail the word "tolerance" regularly become intolerant of all other views, just as those who champion "inclusivity" regularly become increasingly exclusive toward worldviews other than their own.
~ Unknown
ironically the term tolerance is used to justify intolerance toward Christianity.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in Italy is free. Inquisition, intolerance, despots have vanished. I invite scholars to meet and propose what must be done to give science and the arts a new flowering.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Is it possible to be so blinded by your own doctrine that you would actually take human life in God's name and think you are doing Him a service?
~ Unknown