Quotes: Intolerance

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

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

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.

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

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it’s not good at all.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one’s neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

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.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

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.