224 Quotes About Intolerance

Even my mother said that things were improving. Yet Andrew Steele Jarret was able to scare, divide, and bully people, first into electing him President, then into letting him fix the country for then, He didn't get to do everything he wanted to do. He was capable of much greater fascism. So were his most avid followers.

If this pious ardor which consumed the prince had its dangers, in that it quickly led to intolerance and persecution, yet it was not without grandeur; since the progress of civilization always follows evangelization.

Arrogant men show desperate determination to deny even the evidence to prove their prejudice.

Belief, not lack of it, is the source of intolerance. The greater the belief, the greater the intolerance.

Being different is not a sin, but intolerance is.

I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.

Prejudice wears a variety of hats, none of them becoming.

It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive. (p. 6)

The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.