Intolerance Quotes

Intolerance is evidence of impotence. (Aleister Crowley)
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. View quote
Erich Fromm
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. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance. View quote
Terry Jones
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. View quote
Pierre Bayle
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other. (Diana, Princess of Wales)
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. View quote
Morris Raphael Cohen
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. View quote
Eliot Engel
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. View quote
Isaac Hayes
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right. View quote
John McCain
The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror. View quote
Geert Wilders
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. ... If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules. View quote
William Hazlitt
Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfill its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it. View quote
Montesquieu
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. View quote
Montesquieu
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. (Wallace Stevens)
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.”. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali