Quotes About Political Intolerance

#1. Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#2. I eat meat, the rarer the better.

Dominique Swain

#3. Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

Carine Roitfeld

#4. The Left has failed to understand the extent to which its intolerant, often coercive, approach to issues that permit good-willed disagreement has turned off voters who might otherwise be sympathetic to their general program.

Ian Tuttle

#5. Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

Peter Kropotkin

#6. The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

Napoleon Hill

#7. The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

James Hillman

#9. 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

#10. Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry.

Meghan Daum

#11. A friend is not the one that will kill for you, but the one that will die for you

PES

#12. How true, lamentably true. I'm sorry, Father. I do not love my neighbor as myself.

Franny Billingsley

#13. Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

Horace

#14. If half of the two thousand warriors fired ten arrows each during the engagement, that would have been a total of ten thousand arrows,

Nathaniel Philbrick

#15. Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.

Stephanie Pace Marshall

#16. There must be absolute religious liberty, for tyranny and intolerance are as abhorrent in matters intellectual and spiritual as in matters political and material; and more and more we must all realize that conduct is of infinitely greater importance than dogma.

Theodore Roosevelt

#17. Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?

Slavoj Zizek

#18. If terrorism has no religion then intolerance has no country either

Subhasis Das