Intolerance Quotes

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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

Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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

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

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

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

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

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

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

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.

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

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

The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

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

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.

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.