26 Quotes on Intolerance

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

  Author: William Yeats

• 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.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• 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.

  Author: Joseph Story

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

  Author: Wallace Stevens

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

  Author: Charles Simmons

• 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.

  Author: Charles Secondat

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

  Author: George Santayana

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

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

  Author: James Larkin

• 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.

  Author: Abdul Khan

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

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

  Author: Jay Inslee

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

  Author: Aldous Huxley

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

  Author: Eric Hoffer

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

  Author: Ethan Hitchcock

• There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

  Author: Isaac Hayes

• Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

  Author: Sydney Harris

• Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

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

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

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

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

  Author: Eliot Engel

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

  Author: Princess Diana

• Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

  Author: Aleister Crowley

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

  Author: Samuel Coleridge

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

  Author: Morris Cohen

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

  Author: Pierre Bayle

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