Quotes about Intolerance

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.

Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too

We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.

you could believe you were living virtuously and also murder people if you were a fanatic.

And all this to be done on pain of death, and confiscation of house and goods, unless within the limited time they turned Roman catholics.

there are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.

Throughout their friendship Deronda had been used to Hans' egotism, but he had never before felt intolerant of it: when Hans, habitually pouring out his own feelings and affairs, had never cared for any detail in return, and, if he chanced to know any, had soon forgotten it

Without personal commitment to the attributes of fair play and integrity, the United States is in grave danger. Malice and intolerance stalk our society, staking claim to our minds, and not one corner of our social order is unaffected. This darkness is a significant threat to our national good, perhaps the most significant threat in our history, for it strikes at the heart of democracy. Where people are not free to disagree, there can be no democracy, since that is what democracy is.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.