Intolerance Quotes - Page 3

• The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.

  Lance Morrow

  America, Police, Hammers

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• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Fear

  "Celebrity Bostonians react to bombings" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2013.

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• It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

  Lionel Jospin

  Xenophobia, Racism, Adoption

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• Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Sunday, Men

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• They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.

  Langston Hughes

  House, Police, Harlem

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• It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

  Joseph Story

  Spiritual, Ambition, Pride

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.702

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• Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Funny, Humorous, Hair

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

  James Larkin

  Country, Curse, Has Beens

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• House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

  Chris Lowe

  Respect, Hate, Hip Hop

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• 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, Curiosity, Vision

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• 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

  Long, Enemy, Islam

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• To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Honor, Too Much

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, People, Religion

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.245, Vintage

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• Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Roots, Hatred, Trying

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• 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

  House, Tolerance, Constitution

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• 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.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Religious, War, Religion

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• I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Support, Tolerance

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• Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Love, Tolerance, Apathy

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

  Simon Davies

  Age, Human Nature, States

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• There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Mistake, Ancestor, Violation

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• It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Fighting, Together

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.126, Vintage

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• Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

  Michael Shermer

  Morality, Absolutes

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• It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Girl, Hate, Boys

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1972). “Conversation with Canadians”

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