Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
Morris Raphael Cohen
Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
Timothy Radcliffe
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
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mohandas Gandhi
Intolerance is the Do Not Touch sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
Eric Hoffer
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
Princess of Wales Diana
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
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
Henry Ward Beecher
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
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
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards othersboth human and animal.
Gregory Colbert
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
William Butler Yeats
This will to live was the first thing that Judaism gave to Christianity: hence that contradiction, which even today seems to many an inexplicable riddle, between a doctrine of inner conversion, toleration and mercifulness, and a religion of exclusive self-assertion and fanatical intolerance.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and superstition, the father of intolerance and persecution.
Fletcher, Samuel
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana