Quotes About Liberal Intolerance

#1. The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not.

Stephen Jay Gould

#2. Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

Edward Ruscha

#3. Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#4. When running away, I recommend arriving with keys. Makes you feel like you're actually in control of the situation instead of on the lam from your life.

Vanina Marsot

#5. And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#6. You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

Susan B. Anthony

#7. Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his "right mind." p. 31

Thomas Merton

#9. Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

Leo Strauss

#10. Resistance's goal is not to would or disable. Resistance aims to kill.

Steven Pressfield

#11. And you knows ugly when you sees ugly, don't ya, sweet thang.

Kim Harrison

#12. 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

#13. When you tolerate intolerance, you're not really being a liberal.

Bill Maher