Opinion Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Opinion
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“bigotry to consist in stubborn and unjustified animus toward people, typically (though not always) in the context of a larger system of subordination.” — John Corvino Copy Share Image
True bigotry is when you can't see the facts because your own beliefs are blocking the way. — Lawrence D Elliott Copy Share Image
Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, we dismiss the two opposite dangers of bigotry and fanaticism, bigotry which is a too great vagueness and fanaticism which is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence. — Huineng Copy Share Image
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
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Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image