(97 quotes found)
“Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance”
George Bernard Shaw
“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding”
“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.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty”
Mark Twain
“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
Aldous Huxley
“While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn't only terrorism we are fighting. It's the beliefs that motivate terrorists. A new ideology of hatred and intolerance has arisen to challenge America and liberal democracy”
Senator John Kerry
“Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state”
Samuel Davies
“Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue”
Charles Simmons
“Flight is intolerable contradiction.”
Muriel Rukeyser