Definition of Intolerance
Intolerance
Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.
The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect.
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Intolerance Quotations
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
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
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
Princess Diana
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
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
William Butler Yeats
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer
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
Intolerance Translations
intolerance in German is Intoleranz
intolerance in Spanish is intolerancia
intolerance in Swedish is olidlig
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