Intolerance Quotes - Page 13

• In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children that the leaders are good and their policies are wise. The core is religious intolerance. The sides simply change between the Atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Unitarians, etc., depending whether you are talking about the Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, America, etc. A common second reason is to prepare the boys to go to war and the girls to cheer them on.

  Marshall Fritz

  Girl, Wise, Country

  "The Separation of School and State Alliance". Interview with Mary Leggewie, www.homeschoolchristian.com. June 3, 1999.

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• Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable.

  John Hospers

  People, Personality, Luck

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• The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Humanity

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Country, Strong, War

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• When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices.

  John Shelby Spong

  Differences, Dust, Order

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• Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Kind

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1999.

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• Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.

  Al-Ghazali

  Cheating, Lying, Islamic

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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cycling

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.372, The Floating Press

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• There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.

  William Borah

  Dies, Hard

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• At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the west towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

  Martin Jacques

  Heart, Other Cultures, Colonialism

  "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.

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• From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sizes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Color, Differences

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• What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

  Jean Racine

  War, Blood, Violence

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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

  Helen Keller

  Life And Love, Cycling, Tolerance

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.224, 谷月社

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• Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cutting, Reality, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 07, 2011

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• The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes that 'the ones not being tolerated are religious people who dare make any kind of religious reference or take any kind of religious posture outside the private arena.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Law

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• Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Religious, Practice

  Cal Thomas (1994). “The things that matter most”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

  Norm MacDonald

  Guilt, Vices, Bears

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• The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Death Penalty, Murder, Conviction

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• For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Past, Ideas

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• There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Passion, Talking

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• In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.

  Warren G. Harding

  Religious, Years, Presidential

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• Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.

  Alfred M. Rehwinkel

  Age, Doe, Ignored

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• Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

  Carlos H. Amado

  Kindness, Giving, Envy

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• Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one an anarchist. That aspiration towards unlimited freedom, if not tempered by a love for mankind and by the desire that all should enjoy equal freedom, may well create rebels who soon become exploiters and tyrants.

  Errico Malatesta

  Tyrants, Personality, Desire

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.17, PM Press

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