Quotes about Intolerance
Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.
— Thomas Merton
I would be a Christian, except for all the Christians.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
— George Bernard Shaw
It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated—hated for things we have no control over and cannot change.
— Toni Morrison
But then Job was a man. Invisibility was intolerable to men. What complaint would a female Job dare to put forth? And if, having done so, and He deigned to remind her of how weak and ignorant she was, where was the news in that? What shocked Job into humility and renewed fidelity was the message a female Job would have known and heard every minute of her life.
— Toni Morrison
One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge.
— Toni Morrison
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
— William Hazlitt
Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist.
— J. Gresham Machen
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 nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
If she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
— John Updike
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.
— Joseph Addison
Don't settle for one-night stands in the arms of a stranger. Be obsessed with your wedding date. Guard against forgetfulness. Be intolerant of memory lapses. Write yourself notes. Memorize verses. Do whatever you need to do to remember. " Aim at what is in heaven. Think only about the things in heaven" (Colossians 3:1—2).You are engaged to royalty, and your Prince is coming to take you home.
— Max Lucado