Intolerance Quotes

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

I hate people who are intolerant.

By burning Luther’s books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men’s minds of him.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Toleration is a good thing in its place, but you cannot tolerate what will not tolerate you, and is trying to cut your throat.

The majority of Irish people have had enough of intolerance dressed up as liberalism.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.

Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.