Quotes about Intolerance

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

I hate a bully, and I hate racists.

You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.' 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger. 'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.

Only when people genuinely disagree does tolerance become necessary. Claiming that someone is wrong for holding a different viewpoint, then, isn't itself intolerant; the attitude that accompanies the claim may, however, be intolerant.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

You will never change what you tolerate.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.