Intolerance Quotes

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.

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.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I shall not allow ethnic hatred and intolerance to undermine Macedonia's stability.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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

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

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

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

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

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.

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.

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.