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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

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

Mohandas Gandhi

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance

George Bernard Shaw

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

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Timothy Radcliffe

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Morris Raphael Cohen

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Chris Lowe

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

James Larkin

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance

Bill Maher

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

James Russell Lowell

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

Eric Hoffer

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

George Bernard Shaw

The only tolerance in the world, the only tolerance that earns the name, is that toward intolerance

Louis Paul

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

Walter J Lippmann

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others

Adolf Hitler

If martial law did not prevent people from asserting their rights, how much more this. People will always create ways to circumvent this kind of intolerance ... This will be challenged on all fronts.

Renato Reyes

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

David K Shipler

Really a great deal of intolerance for their being stuck in the water and their inability to change.

Richard Fisher

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Charles de Secondat

Feminism has transformed the lives and aspirations of the majority of women in ways unmeasurable by statistics... raising women's intellectual,economic and political expectations, increasing intolerance of wife beating, rape and other violence against women, redefining women's sexuality.

Linda Gordon

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

Sydney J. Harris

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

Harold E. Stassen

How very heavy is the burden of human suffering, the suffering that comes of war; of so-called ethnic cleansing, of conflict in the name of religion; of foolish ideas of racial superiority; of intolerance, bigotry, and egotism.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It may not sound like a particularly stimulating area, but actually looking at lactose and lactose intolerance are fruitful areas.

Marvin Harris

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