America Quote by Robert Hughes

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters…

— Robert Hughes

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

— James Larkin

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

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

— Anonymous

People's intolerance, I find puzzling.

— Jane Goldman

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know…

— Wole Soyinka

I believe we have been too tolerant of the intolerant. We should learn to become intolerant of the intolerant.

— Geert Wilders

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents…

— Quentin Crisp

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

— Alistair Cooke

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

— Paul Johnson