Intolerant Quotes
99 Intolerant quotes by 87 unique authors
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The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation…
— Cyril Connolly
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People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.
— Bernard Pivot
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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents…
— Fay Wray
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like…
— Lake Bell
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I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.
— Bret McKenzie
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Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together…
— Eric Hoffer
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Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of…
— Paul Theroux
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Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts.…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever…
— Hsing Yun
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The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and…
— Criss Jami
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion…
— Robert Kennedy
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
— Khalil Gibran
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The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
— Princess Diana
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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
— Sidney Hook
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
— Robert Kennedy
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Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and…
— Talib Kweli
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I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded…
— Rush Limbaugh
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
— Gary Numan
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
— Voltaire
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People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs,…
— Gerard Way
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I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing…
— Juan Williams
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I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
— Julian Baggini
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Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared…
— Karl Popper
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