Top 428 Intolerance Quotes & Sayings

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.

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

As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they debase religion even more than they misconstrue science. They are a motley collection to be sure, but their core of practical support lies with the evangelical right, and creationism is a mere stalking horse or subsidiary issue in a political program...The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the 'liberal' rhetoric of 'equal time'.

I do not think any religion encourages intolerance. Intolerance is the biggest mental defilement, and every religion tries to remove this defilement. So we must understand that whenever there is intolerance, this comes from an irreligious mind. It is not created by religion, and it is not in the mind of the religious person.

People's intolerance, I find puzzling.

There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

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

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

We must heal the divisions caused by intolerance and bigotry.

The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all 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.

When you tolerate intolerance, you're not really being a liberal.

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

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.

The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.

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.

Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists.

Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance.

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

See as a Muslim myself, I have never faced any intolerance or any discrimination in any part of the country, instead I have been showered with love, but the people who say that they have faced intolerance must be given a chance to speak up, instead of muzzling their voice.

We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

...absolute intolerance also provides long growth.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

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

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance

Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.

The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not.

Intolerance is a beautiful thing...There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

I have had a problem with food intolerance since I was eight.

In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there's a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

You can't reduce a country to its tolerance or intolerance.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance throughout all the history of man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very nonsurvival activity. Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble .

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!