Intolerance Quotes - Page 7

• I mean, you know, there's a lot of talk about tolerance in the country today having to do with people on the left. And Indiana steps forward to protect the constitutional rights and privileges of freedom of religion for people of faith and families of faith in our state and this avalanche of intolerance that's been poured on our state is just outrageous.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my abusive mail - sentencing me to exquisite Oriental tortures and relegating me to hell-fire and damnation -comes from self-admitted Catholics.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Fire, Self, Catholic

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• The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Issues, Rights, Guatemala

  Source: www.indians.org

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• Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football is just too violent and too damaging to the economically vulnerable communities in this country. And it normalizes violence and fosters intolerance, etc." I mean: that would be awesome.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Country, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.

  Wole Soyinka

  Kind, Moments, Secular

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Practice, Want

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• A lot of subjects blend into the same thing: intolerance. When you're a little kid, you don't know that it's going to get better. Your life experience hasn't told you that. I want to protect those people. I want to send out a message and at least try to get that across.

  Michael Buble

  Kids, People, Get Better

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.

  Catherine Wilson

  Europe, Punishment, America

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs of diverse people within a pluralistic society inevitably encounters this challenge: will you tolerate those who themselves do not agree to respect the viewpoints or customs of others? Paradoxically, the liberal commitment to tolerance requires, at some point, intolerance for those who would reject that very commitment.

  Martha Minow

  Commitment, People, Challenges

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• Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.

  Harold Stassen

  Home, America, Fire

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• Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been criticized on the ground that it promoted scensoriousness and intolerance and disputing. Of course the gospel of Christ, in a world of sin and doubt will cause disputing; and if does not cause disputing and arrouse bitter opposition, that is a fairly sure sign that it is not being faithfully proclaimed.

  John Gresham Machen

  Men, Doubt, Church

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• To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.

  Beth Moore

  Children, Regret, Fall

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• The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Acceptance, Punishment, Self

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1974). “Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook”, Tarcher

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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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• 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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• 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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• The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!

  Lydia M. Child

  Beautiful, Selfish, Distance

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• Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

  Ricky Gervais

  Religious, Growing Up, Pain

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• [On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Names, Tolerance, Demand

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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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• Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Powerful, Ethos, Community

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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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• 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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• If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

  Arlene Francis

  Tolerance, Ridicule, Tolerate

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, War, Character

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