Intolerance Quotes

• As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.

  

  U Thant
  • Up
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• The biggest enemy of Islam is the ignorant Muslim, Whose ignorance leads him to intolerance whose actions destroy the true image of Islam. And when the people look at him, they think that Islam is what he is.

  

  Ahmed Deedat
  • Image
  • Destroy
  • Islam

• It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Fight
  • Stupidity
  • Fanaticism

• I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Religious
  • Causes
  • Intolerance

• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Want
  • Faith
  • Intolerance

• Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Alien
  • Hinduism
  • Intolerance

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

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Sympathy
  • Intolerance

• If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Hate
  • Passion
  • Murder

• The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Inspiration
  • Murder
  • Terror

• ...absolute intolerance also provides long growth.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Growth
  • Absolute
  • Provides

• Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Hard
  • Dies
  • Intolerance

• Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

  

  Dean Frazer
  • Feelings
  • Evidence
  • Consequence

• The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Political
  • Opinion
  • Religious

• 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
  • Source
  • Atheists
  • Fanatics

• If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

  

  Arlene Francis
  • Tolerate
  • Intolerance
  • Ridicule

• Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Differences
  • Fundamental
  • Intolerance

• We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Hatred
  • Comments
  • Nuclear Ambitions

• The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is a story of the ideals of equality, fraternity and social and economic justice struggling against the forces of domination, exploitation, intolerance and tyranny.

  

  Fatima Jinnah
  • Inspiration
  • Movement
  • Struggling

• Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • World
  • Hope
  • Reality

• Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • Faith
  • Religious

• the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual reply is women, blacks, teachers, and unions. Those are 'special interests' to be proud of - because together they comprise the majority of Americans. What about the 'special interests' that dominate the Republican Party - the oil companies, the banks, the gun lobby, and the apostles of religious intolerance?

  

  Geraldine Ferraro
  • Political
  • Proud
  • Religious

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

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Kind
  • Religious
  • Legislation

• 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
  • Long
  • Powerful
  • Violence

• Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Society
  • Intolerance
  • Founded

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