Intolerance Quotes

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

True, Violence, Spirit

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas Jefferson

Others, Word, Act

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Cause, Betrays

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
William Butler Yeats

Once, Religious, Open

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
Mitt Romney

Marriage, Great, Wish

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley

Children, Vision, Clarity

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, Power, Him

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris

Personal, Assume, Boasting

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

Today, Greatest, Problem

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great, Tolerance, Support

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley

Evidence, Impotence

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana

Share, Condemn, Egotism

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
Aleister Crowley

Hell, Able, Fact

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer

Faith, Religion, Person

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
Eliot Engel

Alone, Small, America

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
Katy Perry

Human, Healthy, Prejudice

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
Daisaku Ikeda

Education, Peace, Help

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
John Cornyn

Religion, Politics, Islam

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Charles Simmons

Fire, Silence, Old

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Charles de Secondat

Religion, Human, Reason

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.
Isaac Hayes

Time, Place, Religious

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

Peace, Tolerance, Source

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens

Religion, Art, Comparison

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
James Larkin

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'
Patton Oswalt

Good, Fear, Ignorance

In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned.
Eliot Spitzer

Powerful, Long, Violence

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
A. N. Wilson

Sympathy, Honest, Dislike

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

Life, Human, Everyday

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.
Jay Inslee

Tolerance, House, Carved

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