Intolerance Quotes · Page 14

The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of…

— Harry Belafonte

As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in…

— Richard Rorty

It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as…

— Laurence Sterne

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is…

— Mark Twain

“The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total…

— Rami Ollaik

Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your…

— Walt F. J. Goodridge

The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is…

— Fatima Jinnah

“I was fortunate I had uncovered the protein intolerance before I became too sick to research it. I only uncovered it so…

— Steven Magee

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

— Barry O'Farrell

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance,…

— Gordon Parks

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working…

— Richard Trumka

Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea.…

— Benazir Bhutto

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

— Richard Summerbell

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his…

— William Osler

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of…

— Eric Hoffer

The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

“There are two ways of life, one leading to righteousness, which brings happiness, and the other to unrighteousness, which produces misery. One…

— Arthur Findlay

In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain…

— Eliot Spitzer

“And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings…

— Terry Brooks

When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light…

— John Twelve Hawks

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

— James Russell Lowell

“The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and…

— Christina Engela