Intolerant Quotes

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. (Kahlil Gibran)
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. View quote
Rachel Carson
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. View quote
Maya Angelou
It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view. View quote
Rosanne Cash
The problem is not that Christians are conservative or liberal, but that some are so confident that their position is God's position that they become dismissive and intolerant toward others and divisive forces in our national life. View quote
John Danforth
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced wars; it is the intolerant spirit animating that which believed itself in the ascendant. View quote
Montesquieu
We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just. View quote
Bonar Law
An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself. (John Rawls)
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them. View quote
John Rawls
It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant. View quote
Karen Armstrong
The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged. View quote
Ann Coulter
When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men? View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so. But if you want to do good, to solve the world's problems, to progress in the best value-laden sense, once again, there is no better means to those ends than the scientific way. View quote
Richard Dawkins
My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese. (Jay London)
There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke various substances that alter their feelings and thoughts-and the traditional persecution of men for their religion. ... What all of these persecutions have in common is that the victims are harassed by the majority not because they engage in overtly aggressive or destructive acts, ... but because their conduct or appearance offends a group intolerant to and threatened by human differences. View quote
Thomas Szasz
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. View quote
Winston Churchill
If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opinions. By burning the bodies of those who diffuse them many souls would be saved that would otherwise be lost, and so there would be an economy of torment in the long run. It is therefore not surprising that enthusiasts should be intolerant. View quote
William Winwood Reade
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet. View quote
Vince Flynn