Quotes About Intolerance

If I had been born a couple hundred years ago I would probably have been burned as a demon.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born. My

Self-righteous people tend to be critical, dismissive, and impatient with others.

I am convinced that an intolerant monotheism is a greater danger in today's world than a tolerant polytheism.

There is no God, I'm sure of that. But the more they've sought me out, the more I am convinced that there are holy men and women. So I send blessings, such as they are, to all my priests who constitute the Resistance. Down with the fur and the edicts. And if they like, they're welcome to include me in their prayers. Can't hurt. None of us will free the world of intolerance alone. We need people of God, especially if He isn't here.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

It's not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Antisemitism is a categorical impugning of Jews as collectively embodying distasteful and/or destructive traits. In other words, antisemitism is the belief that Jews have common repellent and/or ruinous qualities that set them apart from non-Jews. Descent is determinative; individuality is illusory.

Antisemitism is a categorical impugning of Jews as collectively embodying distasteful and/or destructive

Antisemitism is a categorical impugning of Jews as collectively embodying distasteful and/or destructive traits.

invention of the new word antisemitism. The invention marked an ominous qualitative change, in that the new form of hostility focused not on what Jews believed or how they behaved but on what they intrinsically and unchangeably supposedly are.

Most of the people who would have apologised for Stalin in his day have now found other causes - the cultural and sexual revolution, campaigns to tax the Western poor to provide money for Africa's rich, and above all, the intolerant and puritan secular fundamentalism that gathers around the belief in madmade global warming.