Intolerance Quotes

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

...absolute intolerance also provides long growth.

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

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

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

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.

Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance.

When you tolerate intolerance, you're not really being a liberal.

To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to.

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.

All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

The candidates unleashing heated words about race, bigotry, and intolerance. Donald Trump chasing the minority vote and hurling a blistering accusation at his opponent.

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

Intolerance is a beautiful thing...There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.

The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.