Intolerance unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behaviour that differ from one’s own.

1. Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.
Lyndon Baines Johnson

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

3. Fear Leads to Intolerance
Anonymous

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

5. Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens

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

7. Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
William Butler Yeats

8. 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

9. The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
Princess Diana

10. Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source. They are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional “opium of the people”—cannot bear the music of the spheres. The Wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human morals and human aims
Albert Einstein

11. Tolerance is not the same as acceptance. Tolerance is indulging differing beliefs from one’s own. Having a differing belief isn’t intolerance. Not accepting that others have a differing belief.
Shelley Broadway

12. I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
Lake Bell

13. The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question, Isn't the …
Ronald Reagan

14. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago. So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, “The good outnumber you, and we always will
Patton Oswalt

15. Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
Tim Keller

16. While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn’t only terrorism we are fighting. It’s the beliefs that motivate terrorists. A new ideology of hatred and intolerance has arisen to challenge America and liberal democracy
Senator John Kerry

17. It will foster religious intolerance and misunderstanding, and what we need in this country – and what we badly need throughout the world – is better religious understanding and tolerance.
Kelvin Thomson

18. Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance.
Bill Maher

19. Never has God given waivers to family members, just because they had bad leaders. In Jonah’s time, the entire family of Israel had become unacceptable, but never has any Israelite administration been without some injustice, intolerance and alienation from God–much less today’s earthly family. Even during the celebrated reign of Solomon, Solomon was multiplying wives and horses–against God’s written counsel. It has always been so.
Regardless, Israel was one family. They were expected to stick together whether they were in exile, or at home living in abundance. No deserters, or pious arm-folders were allowed. As Jonah discovered, no quitters were allowed. (page vi)
Michael Ben Zehabe

20. America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded
Futton h. Sheen

21. I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end… where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.
John Kennedy

22. Be a friend of the truth to the martyrdom, but do not be its defender to intolerance.
Pythagoras of Samos

23. Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
Anthony Daniels

24. It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. Pierre Bayle

25. Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
Theodor W. Adorno

26. There is a new climate of religious intolerance in Britain. Whatever the government says, this new bill is pandering to that intolerance.
Nicholas Hytner

27. Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
William Butler Yeats

28. Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw

29. It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.
Terry Jones

30. It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling
Anonymous

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31. So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, ‘The good outnumber you, and we always will.
Patton Oswalt

32. Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
Eliot Engel

33. Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

34. Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.
Raisa M. Gorbachev

35. Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
James Larkin

36. Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
Sarah Dessen

37. Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley

38. Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Thomas Mann

39. It's probably those lactose-intolerant freaks. We all know there's nothing cool about intolerance. Caprice Crane

40. Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens

41. Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.
Sigmund Freud

42. The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is ‘Leave me alone; don’t harass me; I’m intolerant towards your over-proximity.
Slavoj Zizek

43. I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I shall not allow ethnic hatred and intolerance to undermine Macedonia’s stability.
Boris Trajkovski

44. The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he’d just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine: “Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. very Fast.
Rick Riordan

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

46. I know nothing of hatred intolerance racism sexism bigotry indoctrination homophobia and prejudice I don’t yet understand things like love compassion integrity tolerance human decency and truth For the first and most important formative years of my life all I will know is what you teach me Choose wisely
Anonymous

47. 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

48. Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

49. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

51. I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
A. N. Wilson

52. Tolerance does not mean tolerating Intolerance
Anonymous

53. It is stupid to be intolerant and this is our biggest issue, not just an issue… Religious intolerance and not being secular in this country is the worst kind of crime that you can do as patriot.
Shahrukh Khan

54. I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

55. 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

56. Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.
Bill Maher

57. Intolerance The world just can't tolerate arrogant people
Anonymous

58. When you choose love over hate, faith over despair and acceptance over intolerance, you are doing your part to change the world
Anonymous

59. Intolerance of your present creates your future.
Mike Murdock

60. I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

61. Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.
Walter Scott

62. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi