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The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.
Alister E. McGrath
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Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
James Larkin
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To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.
Paul Tournier
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Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.
Bill Maher
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One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
Richard John Neuhaus
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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." But mistake it not.
Stephen Jay Gould
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As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance
U Thant
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They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.
Langston Hughes
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
Vikram Seth
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Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
Sigmund Freud
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The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
Elsa Maxwell
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The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.
Adolf Hitler
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Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.
Michael Shermer
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We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.
Rush Limbaugh
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
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Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
Timothy Radcliffe
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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
George Bernard Shaw
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I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
Katy Perry
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Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all.
Bruce Bawer
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
Claude Vorilhon
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There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.
William Borah
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Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
Simon Davies
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Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.
Jack Kelly
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Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.
Jacques Chirac
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In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief
Walter Lippmann
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
Wole Soyinka
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Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.
Ruth Benedict
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The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.
Stockwell Day
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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.
Voltaire
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...absolute intolerance also provides long growth.
Adolf Hitler
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It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.
Robert Hugh Benson
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Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.
Dean Frazer
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Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.
Ludwig von Mises
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Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
Richard Dawkins
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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
Christopher Lasch
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
Susan B. Anthony
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All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.
Harry S. Truman
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When you tolerate intolerance, you're not really being a liberal.
Bill Maher
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Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.
Alan Dershowitz
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Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.
J. William Fulbright
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
Friedrich Nietzsche