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Quotes about Intolerance


Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sidney J. Harris

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. •Kingman Brewster, Jr. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. •Abraham Lincoln Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. •Gilda Radner Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Samuel Davies

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Samuel Davies

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

George Santayana

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerant only of intolerance.

Horace (Quintus Horatius I.S.S.G.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Theodor W. Adorno

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Eric Hoffer

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Eric Hoffer

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

Aleister Crowley

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

Eric Hoffer

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Giacomo Leopardi

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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