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

  • It's common to think things will never happen where you are-never in Cambridge, never in New York, never in Seattle-that sort of thing, whatever it is, never happens here, not in our community. Then it happens, right in front of you, and you realize you were blind to it, that you forgot that intolerance and zealotry and viciousness are human currency everywhere, and it takes your breath away.

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

  • [On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table.

  • There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

  • How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even intolerance, of deaf people, and now it's me. Well, I am determined to become the most Delightful Deaf Old Lady that ever existed and I am practicing to that end.

    Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”
  • The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance.

  • Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

    Thinking   Hands   People  
  • With the country moving toward inclusion, the leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have instead sent a message to young people that only some of them are valued. They've chosen to teach division and intolerance.

    Country   Moving   Boys  
    "After review, Boy Scouts reaffirm ban on gays". www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2012.
  • Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics
  • There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

  • 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.

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

    Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”
  • There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

  • Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

    Religious   Freedom   Men  
    Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”
  • We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

    Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.668, Routledge
  • One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.

    Men   Atheism   Stronger  
    Gustave Le Bon, Alice Widener (1979). “Gustave Le Bon, the man and his works: a presentation with introduction, first translations into English, and edited extracts”, Liberty Fund
  • The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.

  • 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.

    Thomas Jefferson (1943). “Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction”
  • Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.

    Taken   Thinking   World  
    Source: www.nobelprize.org
  • The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

    James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.83
  • I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

    Sex   Law   Civilization  
    "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.
  • 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.

    Marriage   Gay   Wish  
    Preserving traditional marriage: a view from the states : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, June 22, 2004.
  • Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

    David K. Shipler (2015). “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land”, p.28, Broadway Books
  • All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

    Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”
  • Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

  • Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

  • If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.

    Evil   Tolerance   Ends  
    Dennis Prager (1996). “The Prager Perspective”
  • Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.

    Heart   People   Support  
  • There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.

    Passion   Sleep   Fire  
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