Intolerance Quotes · Page 8

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

— Timothy Radcliffe

Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.

— Joe Biden

“It is time we become an aid to each other's light, not an impediment.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

— John William Fletcher

“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Richard Summerbell

President Trump identifies the hatred and intolerance expressed by his radical opponents and names it for what it is.

— Charlie Kirk

“Hate is the flawless boomerang. The harder I throw it, the harder it comes back.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,…

— Philip Pullman

“Making people change because you can’t deal with who they are isn’t how it’s supposed to be done. What needs to be…

— John Scalzi

There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry…

— Elisabeth Marbury

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and…

— Alister E. McGrath

Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is…

— Betty Smith

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of…

— Eric Hoffer

“the United States government will not tolerate any disrespect for the holy Koran.” What form our government’s intolerance will take remains unspecified.…

— Sam Harris

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

— Barack Obama

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing…

— Gertrude Stein

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection…

— Thomas Jefferson

Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will…

— Alfred M. Rehwinkel

Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have…

— John Shelby Spong

I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred…

— Randall Terry

“People thought tolerance was the opposite of intolerance. Whereas in fact it was some meaningless neutrality. A child, any child, growing up,…

— Jamie O'Neill

“Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some…

— Lesslie Newbigin

“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought…

— Thomas Mann

“I was barked at by numerous dogs who are earning their food guarding ignorance and superstition for the benefit of those who…

— Albert Einstein

From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of…

— Dan Brown

Frank: "I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance." Percy: "Seriously?" Frank: "And I love ice cream…

— Rick Riordan

“It's probably those lactose-intolerant freaks. We all know there's nothing cool about intolerance.”

— Caprice Crane

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“Intolerance breeds hatred. Hatred creates divisions. Divisions destroy common grounds.”

— Mamur Mustapha

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

“We can understand the historical reasons why many embrace hatred, while refusing to surrender to the ills of the past.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

— John Shattuck

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

— Sydney J. Harris

There's got to be a zero tolerance to racism, anti-Semitism, any form of division and intolerance.

— Erin O'Toole

“The world has plenty room for everyone, but no world is room enough for the bigot.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I have no patience or time for people who wear their insecurities on their sleeves like badges of honor.

— Anonymous

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow