"Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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More Bigotry Quotes
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one of 265 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own…
— Joseph Addison
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
— Annie Besant
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.
— George H. W. Bush
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
— Lord Byron
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a…
— Andrew Carnegie
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce…
— Maya Angelou
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
— James A. Baldwin
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
— William Hazlitt
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More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles,…
— Jonathan Rauch
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