Intolerance Quotes - Page 6

• Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Struggle, Political, Tolerance

  Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.5, Verso

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• When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity, intolerance, and uncleanliness lie in the foul-smelling alleys... The amiable dreamer of Nazareth has only contributed to increasing the hatred... What superstition and fanaticism on every side!

  Theodor Herzl

  Lying, Years, Hatred

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• So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Atheism, Natural

  John Stuart Mill, Charles W. Elliott, Patrick Hayden (2004). “On Liberty”, p.8, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Needs, Christ, Dies

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• ...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocracy, the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency. And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter burden of the sense of sin that has darkened the beauty of the starry night and cast a baleful shadow on the passing plesures of a world to be enjoyed, he must chuckle as he murmurs: give the devil his due.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Christian, War, Night

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.226, Random House

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• I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.

  Paul Haggis

  Awards, People, Risk

  "The Oscars, minute by minute" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2006.

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• Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

  Emile M. Cioran

  People, Doe, Facts

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• Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Arguing, Discrimination

  "What is the proper place for religion in Britain's public life?" by Will Hutton, Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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• If
  we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance
  instead
  of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of
  evil.

  Dennis Prager

  Evil, Tolerance, Ends

  Dennis Prager (1996). “The Prager Perspective”

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• We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

  Gregory Colbert

  Animal, Empathy, Needs

  "Peace and Harmony: The Message of Our Discovery". Photo Magazine, No. 427, March 2006.

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• We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

  George Carey

  Religious, Hands, Scripture

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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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• The march to the center of Caracas will not be permitted. I will use a hard hand against fascism and intolerance. I declare it. If they want to overthrow me, come and get me. Here I am, with the people and the armed forces.

  Nicolas Maduro

  Hands, Here I Am, People

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• I’ve found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I’m a Republican who happens to be gay…versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.

  Carl DeMaio

  Gay, Acceptance, Men

  "Straight talk about gay Republican congressional candidate Carl DeMaio" By Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2014.

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• We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Tolerance, World

  "Where’s the Outrage? ABC Premieres Show Called 'GCB' (Good Christian Bitches)". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

  Georges Bizet

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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