Intolerance Quotes · Page 5

“Rain doesn't check bank balance, soil doesn't require DNA test - breath doesn't ask for proof of residence, medicine doesn't require faith…

— Abhijit Naskar

America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.

— Benjamin Hart

Be tolerant of differences, rich & poor, big & small. Don't label people from another social circle. We don't want that to…

— Mufti Ismail Menk

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

— Jack Kelly

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

— Paul Robeson

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,…

— Rigoberta Menchu

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good…

— Chris Lowe

I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.

— Peter Cameron

As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in…

— Patton Oswalt

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical…

— Jasper Fforde

One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by…

— Gustave Le Bon

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

— Randall Terry

“A hanging typically occurs after someone is found guilty in the eyes of the law and irredeemable in the eyes of society.…

— Stewart Stafford

“Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women’s rights, and gay rights,…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

— Barack Obama

[People of faith must] reassure them [atheists] that we share with them the core values of America, that our faith is not…

— Joe Lieberman

Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means…

— Kathryn Schulz

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

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in…

— ben franklin

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Gertrude Stein

What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in…

— Thrity Umrigar

“All Abraham's sons were taught that God would progressively reveal Himself. God's wholeness has yet to be realized. There will always be…

— Michael Ben Zehabe

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

— Anonymous

“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

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

— Sydney J. Harris

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

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Erin O'Toole

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Caprice Crane

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— John William Fletcher

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

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the…

— Eliot Engel

“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.”

— Abhijit Naskar