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Intolerance Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not…
- There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance,…
- All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they…
- To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
- It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while…
More Intolerance Quotes
- Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state. — Simon Davies
- The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many. — Paul Robeson
- 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
- Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes… — Albert Einstein
- No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of… — Helen Keller
- Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence… — Mahatma Gandhi
- 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
- Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. — Morris Raphael Cohen