Top 100 Quotes About Intolerant
#1. Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?
Brom
#2. My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese.
Jay London
#3. It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive. (p. 6)
Robin R. Meyers
#4. I'm Trey. And you are ... ?"
"Intolerant of jackasses who fuck with my female.
Larissa Ione
#5. It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
Fay Wray
#6. All [people] are intolerant ... Only they're intolerant of different things.
Joan D. Vinge
#7. Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism
Wendy Doniger
#8. You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other people.
Martin Scorsese
#9. The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.
Ambrose Bierce
#10. Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.
Natalie Angier
#11. I definitely felt out of place at first, not unlike being lactose intolerant in Wisconsin.
Jared Brock
#12. The driving force of any ideology stands revealed: it can't be coherent without being intolerant.
Clive James
#13. The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.
Emma Goldman
#14. We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
George D. Prentice
#15. Monotheism has also been recognized as inherently intolerant.
Ibn Warraq
#16. A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.
John William Draper
#17. I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.
Thomas Sowell
#18. The Deuteronomists had made violence an option in the Judeo-Christian religion. It would always be possible to make these scriptures endorse intolerant policies.
Karen Armstrong
#19. We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally intolerant society. It also ... paralyses our powers of resistance to them.
David Stove
#20. When I was being bullied, I had to learn not to judge myself by the opinions of intolerant morons. Then I felt much better.
Michael R. Burch
#21. In this era , we face the biggest issue of humanity is people becoming heartless & Intolerant
Marisa Ardani
#22. England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
Hanif Kureishi
#23. Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.
Arlen Specter
#24. But I don't have anything to prove. My reputation is what it is. It seems that a lot of gay men are put off by jazz because either they don't believe it speaks to their own experience or they believe the genre itself to be somehow intolerant of homosexuality.
Fred Hersch
#25. [T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.
Camille Paglia
#26. Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.
Tori Amos
#28. It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
Phyllis Schlafly
#29. Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Sidney Hook
#30. How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
Foster Friess
#31. Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.
Tom Paulin
#32. What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert F. Kennedy
#33. Unlike those who fight truly intolerant things like terrorism throughout the world, Madonna is really the lone brave voice in the wilderness standing up against evil.
Greg Gutfeld
#34. Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardor of a religious sentiment, and in its exterior forms would soon become a cult.
Gustave Le Bon
#35. No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.
Kevin DeYoung
#36. Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken tolerance to such an extreme that we tolerate the immigration into our country of millions of intolerant people who hate millions of Americans who are already here.
Thomas Sowell
#37. This is not to say that the Muslims were more brutal or less tolerant than were Christians or Jews, for it was a brutal and intolerant age. It is to say that efforts to portray Muslims as enlightened supporters of multiculturalism are at best ignorant.
Rodney Stark
#38. It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
Vince Flynn
#39. I think people are intolerant of artists.
David Chase
#40. Of course, everyone is intolerant of something or someone.
John Irving
#41. Often it is those who preach "tolerance," "nonjudgmentalism," and "intellectualism" who are most intolerant.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#42. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.
Rachel Carson
#43. Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.
Wafa Sultan
#44. Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.
Oscar Goodman
#45. Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or to remain Catholic, it was a terrible time. For once the original religion fragments, which religion then leads to salvation?
John Rawls
#46. Lactose intolerant milk?! KISS, MY, DICK!
Lewis Black
#47. We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
Mignon McLaughlin
#48. No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
Franz Grillparzer
#49. Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.
Talib Kweli
#50. Carolyn and I struggled with how or if to forgive while we dealt with the impact of the clinic's actions. Kevin Anderson helped us by introducing the idea of intolerant forgiveness: the ability to forgive the person who committed the error, but not the actual mistake.
Carolyn Savage
#51. My statement to Harris that his book contains much to admire is specious hyperbole. In The End of Faith, Harris rails against religious fundamentalism, which seems obvious, as well as against religious moderates, which seems intolerant.
Nick Flynn
#52. The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims.
Nicholas Kristof
#53. Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.
Marie De France
#54. Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ...
George Eliot
#55. The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
Cyril Connolly
#56. The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.
Carl R. Rogers
#57. I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler
#58. There is nothing more dangerous or more plentiful in all the world than unreasonable men of greed that preach an intolerant ideology and are full of a self-esteeming and illogical moral creed.
Tonny K. Brown
#59. We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.
Bonar Law
#60. These days, though, tolerance means that you accept the other person's views as being true or legitimate. If you claim that someone is wrong, you can get accused of being intolerant
even though, ironically, the person making the charge of intolerance isn't being accepting of your beliefs.
Paul Copan
#61. Modern 'liberalism' is strikingly illiberal; the high priests of 'tolerance' are increasingly intolerant of even the mildest dissent; and those who profess to 'celebrate diversity' coerce ever more ruthlessly a narrow homogeneity.
Mark Steyn
#62. The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.
George F. Kennan
#63. It's going to be legen ... wait for it ... and I hope you're not lactose-intolerant cause the second half of that word is ... dairy!
Barney Stinson
#64. Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?
William E. Simon
#65. But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.
Haruki Murakami
#66. if religious people are going to be blamed for all the intolerance, then non-religious people simply have no right to be intolerant themselves.
Tom Hilpert
#67. It's probably those lactose-intolerant freaks. We all know there's nothing cool about intolerance.
Caprice Crane
#68. An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty ... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.
John Rawls
#69. The Bible is to be our basis of authority. We must "by faith" accept [Jesus] as the Son of the living God. This sounds narrow and intolerant, and in a sense it is!
Billy Graham
#70. There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
Michael Caine
#72. It is founded on the worst instincts of mankind. At its best, it is intolerant and bigoted. At its worst, it is sadistic and brutal. Between these two poles it has its existence.
Susan Carol McCarthy
#73. You should never eat when you're on the toilet. "But I'm lactose-intolerant, and I always wanted to enjoy a bowl of Puffins with whole milk!" That's more of an almond milk cereal, but live
your dream.
Daniel Tosh
#74. I do not at all have the mind of a bully ... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
Conrad Black
#75. You never run into a fundamentalist Christian as intolerant of - take anything, you know, homosexuality as a liberal who has just found a lit cigarette in a nonsmoking section.
Ann Coulter
#76. Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.
Christopher Hitchens
#77. People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react ... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.
Arthur M. Jolly
#78. When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?
Phyllis Schlafly
#79. Sorry, I said. But I've been recently diagnosed as fashion intolerant. I can't wear anything good, in case I develop style.
Simon R. Green
#80. But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'
Ari Fleischer
#81. The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...
George Eliot
#82. Because they were both young, she was intolerant and he was stubborn.
David Eddings
#83. The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#84. if being intolerant and screwing someone out of a well-earned promotion was a crime, this country would need to build a lot more jails.
Jeaniene Frost
#85. Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
Maajid Nawaz
#86. I'm often asked why I left politics and went to Halliburton and I explain that I reached the point where I was mean-spirited, short-tempered and intolerant of those who disagreed with me and they said 'Hell, you'd make a great CEO', so I went to Texas and joined the private sector.
Dick Cheney
#87. Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire
#88. Seeing as when it came to the milk of human kindness
they were all pretty much lactose intolerant.
J.L. Merrow
#89. Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#90. Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.
Ludwig Von Mises
#91. Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort of fanaticism that can be as intolerant as any religion has ever been.
Lesslie Newbigin
#92. Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
#93. It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.
Chris Patten
#94. If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
Beck
#95. The dykes versus the fags, but every straight man in the U.S who watched porn wanted to see two women getting off together. Lesbians held a unique place in the intolerant American psyche: it was the men who lay with men who challenged the words of the Holy Bible
Jenna Hilary Sinclair
#96. I'm allowed to have my opinions as an American, but it seems the Left becomes very intolerant when you have an opinion other than what they state.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#97. I'm sick of all you ammo-phobes being intolerant of my gun.
Patrick Henry
#98. Our ideology is intolerant ... and peremptorily demands ... the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.
Adolf Hitler
#99. The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
Criss Jami
#100. 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
George Eliot
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