Intolerance Quotes

• Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

  Aleister Crowley

  Evidence, Fetish, Impotence

  Aleister Crowley, (2013). “The Writings of the Great Beast - Some Short Stories by Aleister Crowley (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Interesting, Understanding

  "Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects".

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• It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Humility, Law, Profound

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin

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• Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

  Karl Popper

  Names, Tolerance, Claims

  "The Open Society and Its Enemies". Book by Karl Popper, Volume 1. Notes to Chapter 7, Note 4, 1945.

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• 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

  Money, Party, Race

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• Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Respect, Rights, Giving

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll", Vol VII, 2009.

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• The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hypocrisy, Devil, Reformers

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.83

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• It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

  Pierre Bayle

  Diversity, Tolerance, Brotherhood

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• Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Adversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Tolerance, Everyday, Humans

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lying, Opinion, Assumption

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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• Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Tolerance, Improvement

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3198, e-artnow

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• Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Commitment, Tolerance

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• We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

  Karl Popper

  Names, Tolerance, Claims

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.668, Routledge

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• Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

  Theodor Adorno

  Personality, Tolerance, Mark

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• Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Lying, Simple, Compassion

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• The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

  Princess Diana

  World, Today, Problem

  "Remembering the enduring legacy of Lady Diana: the People’s Princess" by Natasha Koifman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2017.

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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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• Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

  Jameis Winston

  Judging, Prejudice, Want

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Tolerance, Dies

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Support, Tolerance

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