Assuming Quote by James Madison

Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right…

— Thomas Paine

“Toleration means being prepared to accept opinions that you intensely dislike. Likewise democracy means consenting to be governed by people whom you intensely dislike.…

— Roger Scruton

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies that somebody…

— George W Truett

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another…

— George Washington

“Toleration means incomplete religious liberty.”

— John Bagnell Bury

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

— George Santayana

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

— Ambrose Bierce

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

— Frederick Buechner

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

— Wallace Stevens

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

— Dean Frazer