Intolerance Quotes - Page 5

• The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Heart, Men, Battle

  Address at the Hollywood Bowl, Beverly Hills, California, www.dwightdeisenhower.com. October 19, 1956.

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• Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Bullying, Mean, Pride

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• We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

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• The lessons of history show - and I'm not talking about any particular history, all history - when you see minor abuses start to build up in the intolerance space and do nothing about them, then they lead to bigger and bigger abuses.

  Tim Kaine

  Talking, Space, Abuse

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God we may have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

  Harold Stassen

  Courage, Selfish, Men

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• When you tolerate intolerance, you're not really being a liberal.

  Bill Maher

  Tolerate

  "Bill Maher Smacks Down Tavis Smiley". www.newsbusters.org. February 19, 2011.

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• Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.

  Wole Soyinka

  Taken, Thinking, World

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance.

  Bill Maher

  Tolerate

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• Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it has any negative impact on people's lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It's like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it's probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It's an aesthetic thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Believe, Impact, Talking

  "Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the Prophet of Boom and Doom" by Bryan Appleyard, www.thetimes.co.uk. June 01 2008,.

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• If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

  Jasper Fforde

  Art, Hate, Passion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Hate, Real, Arrows

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• In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.

  Dean Koontz

  Daughter, Queens, Real

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• Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Weakness, Doing You, Belief

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• Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance throughout all the history of man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very nonsurvival activity. Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble .

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Religious, Mean, Men

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• So many academics have been imprisoned or expelled from their university posts just because they signed a letter calling for peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue. They are all declared enemies of the state by the president. Just because they published a letter saying, "stop killing each other and begin talking for a peaceful resolution." That kind of intolerance from the government towards the rest of society - especially people in favor of freedom of speech, human rights, and more democracy for everyone - is a very important issue in Turkey.

  Burhan Sonmez

  People, Peaceful, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Thinking, Men

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• If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Democracy, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

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• Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.

  Joe Biden

  Gay, Gay Rights, Shadow

  Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 6, 2012.

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• Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Spirit, Taboo

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• We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Zoos, Past, Racism

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• If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Tolls, Bells, Hell

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• My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Feelings, Suffering

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Tolerance, Saint, Sin

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.300

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• In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Spiritual, War, Matter

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. Religious beliefs are sacred to people and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

  Isaac Hayes

  Religious, Past, Rights

  "Isaac Hayes Wants Out Of 'South Park' Due To Religious Jokes" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 13, 2006.

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