Intolerance Quotes - Page 4

• Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Doe, Violence

  Timothy Radcliffe (2013). “What is the Point of Being a Christian?”, p.116, A&C Black

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• Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Natural, Cruelty

  Sigmund Freud (0101). “Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego”, Prabhat Prakashan

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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

  Hypocrite, People, Tolerance

  "Christopher Hitchens: 'You have to choose your future regrets'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

  Robert Byrd

  Patriotic, Fighting, Race

  "An Unlikely Friendship: President Obama and Senator Byrd" by Eve Zibel, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2010.

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• In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.

  Bill Maher

  Book, Ideas, America

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

  Dean Frazer

  Feelings, Evidence, Powerless

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• Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

  William Butler Yeats

  Religious, Atheism, Way

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• Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.

  Betty Smith

  Children, War, Heart

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• To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Trying, Certain

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• Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

  James Madison

  Opposites, Liberty, Assuming

  "Rights of Man". Book by Thomas Paine, 1791.

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• Intolerance of your present creates your future.

  Mike Murdock

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Life Changing

  Mike Murdock (2012). “1 Minute Businessman's Devotional”, p.195, Wisdom International Inc

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• Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Tolerance, Dies

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• Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

  Kofi Annan

  Ignorance, Hands, Racism

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• It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Community, Church, Would Be

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• There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Differences, Tolerance, Making A Difference

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• Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

  John Middleton Murry, Jr.

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

  Jack Kelly

  Suicide, Poison, Social

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• I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

  Julianna Baggott

  Believe, Past, Evil

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• There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Confused, Average, Tolerance

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• There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

  Warren G. Harding

  Religious, Church, Liberty

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• As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance

  U Thant

  Buddhist

  Thant (U) (1978). “View from the UN”, Doubleday Books

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• We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

  Barack Obama

  Hopelessness, Enough, Violent

  Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by President Barack Obama, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2014.

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• The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

  Napoleon Hill

  Religious, Political Differences, Opinion

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.94, Penguin

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