Intolerance Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these impediments to humanity's pursuit of well-being are also among the root causes of refugee problems.

  Poul Hartling

  Religious, Roots, Rights

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• I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.

  Luther Burbank

  Weed, Flower, Pride

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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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• Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheism, Heritage, Christianity

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• I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

  Gordon Parks

  Racism, Choices, Cameras

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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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• Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

  John Oliver

  Australia, Slippers, Racist

  "Australia 'most comfortably racist' country, says British comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Oliver". www.news.com.au. April 16, 2013.

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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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• Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.

  J. Martin Klotsche

  Hate, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than they were before they met me, a sin that's left me with very little time to consider other extremely popular moral misdemeanors, like usury, intolerance, bearing false tales, extortion, racial bigotry, and the casting of that first stone.

  Sally Stanford

  Book, People, Stones

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• Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Fighting, Men

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Drinking, Simple, Animal

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

  Bernard Baruch

  Son, Effort, Experience

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• It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

  Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

  Speak, Dictionary, Toleration

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• How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even intolerance, of deaf people, and now it's me. Well, I am determined to become the most Delightful Deaf Old Lady that ever existed and I am practicing to that end.

  Susan Hale

  Believe, Realize Things, People

  Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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• [People of faith must] reassure them [atheists] that we share with them the core values of America, that our faith is not inconsistent with their freedom and our mission is not one of intolerance, but one of love.... I stand before you today as a witness to the goodness of God. For me, like you and like my running mate Al Gore, faith provided a foundation, order and purpose in my life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Running, Atheist, Order

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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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• 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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• All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

  Harry S. Truman

  Life, Prejudice

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “Memoirs”

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• Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.

  J. William Fulbright

  Character, Dissent, Wells

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.42, Random House

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