26 quotes found
“Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification.”
“Being on the inside could be an addiction”
“The Left has failed to understand the extent to which its intolerant, often coercive, approach to issues that permit good-willed disagreement has turned off voters who might otherwise be sympatheti...”
“People who use their religion as a framework to kill people, simply , are not nice people. Yes, that's quite a stand I'm making, but the idea that people are systematically executed because they do...”
“There is a single truth, it filters through different stories and languages because people come from different cultures and speak different languages. And this truth has manifested itself through m...”
“The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.”
“A world that becomes more Muslim becomes less everything else. First its Jews, already abandoning France. Then its homosexuals, already under siege from gay-bashing in Amsterdam, the most tolerant ...”
“The modern mind is like the eye of a man who is too tired to see the difference between blue and green. It fails in the quality that is truly called distinction; and,being incapable of distinction,...”
“America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not n...”
“We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which...”
“Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.”
“And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings alone were the way that others must follow, and claimed special knowledge ...”
“The disease of intolerance is not communicated only in religious groups. Ive seen it infect racial groups, economic groups and even whole nations (where it is often cleverly disguised as patriotism...”
“We think, therefore we should make everyone think what we think.”
“Murdered by a kind of fear that seeks to obliterate any evidence that the world is different from the way they want to see it, from the way they want to believe it to be.”
“Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons never to truth. Tolerance ...”
“Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. ...”
“Tolerance is not a synonym of Weakness”
“The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.”
“It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any.”
