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Quotes About Intolerance

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.
~ Irshad Manji
We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.
~ Denis Kearney
If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.
~ Lady Gaga
We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
I hope to see the very concept of Jewry completely obliterated.
~ Heinrich Himmler
Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
~ Anthony Daniels
I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.
~ Richard Wagner
The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
~ Paul Robeson
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
~ Edward Gibbon
When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews.
~ Julius Streicher
[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.
~ Camille Paglia
I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.
~ Abhijit Naskar
We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.
~ Martin Luther
Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?
~ Denis Leary
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.
~ Martin Luther
I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.
~ Martin Luther
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
~ Martin Luther
If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
~ Al Franken
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
~ Martin Luther
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.
~ Aviva Cantor
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
~ Elsa Maxwell
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali