Quotes of Intolerant - somelinesforyou

“ If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an arsehole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you. ”

- Kurt Cobain

“ I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ I make my living half as a critic, so I think that opinionated would be a good thing for a critic to be. And I think crankiness has some sort of connotation of individualism. ”

- Sarah Vowell

“ I find it incredibly sexist, because one need only look at Thomas in terms of intellectual heft. ”

- Barbara Mikulski

“ Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated. ”

- Samuel Richardson

“ There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ”

- George Gordon Byron

“ I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am on grateful to those teachers. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people. ”

- Paul Duncun

“ Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity; the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other. ”

- Princess Diana

“ No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. ”

- Winston Churchill

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

- George Santayana

“ As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ She began the first of what we later called 'my lessons in living.' She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. ”

- George Santayana

“ I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. ”

- Kahlil Gibron

“ In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by being opinionated rather than by being learned. ”

- A. N. Wilson
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