Quotes and Sayings about Intolerance
"Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Religion, Accidents, Intolerance)
"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Intolerance, Support)
"The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both."
- John Cornyn
(Related: Politics, Religion, Islam, Enemy, Extreme, Intolerance, Minority, Terrorism, Tradition)
"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."
- Aleister Crowley
(Related: People, Fact, Hell, Intolerance, Religious, Satisfaction)
"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."
- Aleister Crowley
(Related: Intolerance)
"The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other."
- Princess Diana
(Related: Intolerance, Today, World)
"Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America."
- Eliot Engel
(Related: America, Bigotry, Discrimination, Intolerance, states, United, World)
"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Growth, Intolerance, Spirit, Violence)
"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Faith, Cause, Intolerance, Want)
"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Anger, Enemies, Intolerance, Understanding)
"Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting."
- Sydney J. Harris
(Related: Superiority, Egotism, Intolerance)
"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins."
- Isaac Hayes
(Related: Time, Beliefs, Bigotry, Intolerance, Religious, Satire, World)
"The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one."
- Ethan A. Hitchcock
(Related: Fact, Intolerance)
"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Faith, Religion, Intolerance, Profession)
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Intelligence, Vision, Children, Clarity, Curiosity, Intolerance, Remarkable)
"Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Constitution, Intolerance)
"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Act, Intolerance, Opinions, Religious, Right, Will, Word)
"Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy."
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
(Related: Hatred, Help, Intolerance, Poor, Trying, Violence)
"Intolerance has been the curse of our country."
- James Larkin
(Related: Country, Intolerance)
"No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance."
- Giacomo Leopardi
(Related: Life, Intolerance)
"House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all."
- Chris Lowe
(Related: Music, Love, Hate, Intolerance, Respect)
"Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Truth, Intolerance, Violence)
"Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians."
- Mitt Romney
(Related: Marriage, Americans, Intolerance, Majority)
"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."
- George Santayana
(Related: Egotism, Intolerance)
"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
- Charles de Secondat
(Related: Religion, Fact, Intolerance, Reason, Religious, Spirit)
"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."
- Charles Simmons
(Related: Argument, Bigotry, Fire, Intolerance, Old, Persecution, Silence, Tongue)
"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
- Wallace Stevens
(Related: Art, Religion, People, Intolerance)
"It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject."
- Joseph Story
(Related: Government, Power, Act, Ambition, Bigotry, Consciousness, Intolerance, Pride, Spiritual)
"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
- Claude Vorilhon
(Related: History, Mistakes, Nothing)
"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Money, Power, Deceit, Intolerance, Lust, Nations, Violence)
"It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others."
- Wendell Willkie
(Related: Thinking)
"Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution."
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Intolerance, Legislation, Open, Persecution, Religious)