Quotes tagged ‘intolerance’

“Brett Ridgeman: Politics like always. Lt. Calvert: Like cell phones, and just as annoying, politics are everywhere. Being branded a racist in today's public forum is like being accused of being a communist in the 50s, whether it’s a possibly racist remark made in a private phone call or the indelica…”

— S. Craig Zahler, Anthony Lurasetti, Vince Vaughn, imdb.com

“So I know many [Members of Congress] were fighting for people to be free, for people to live in dignity in South Africa… So I know that they care about these things. But now that you have two Muslims who are saying, here is a group of people that we want to make sure that they have the dignity that…”

— Ilhan Omar, jewishinsider.com

“To me, it’s something that becomes designed to end the debate because you get in this space of – yes, I know what intolerance looks like and I’m sensitive when someone says, ‘The words you used Ilhan, are resemblance of intolerance.’ And I am cautious of that and I feel pained by that. But it’s almo…”

— Ilhan Omar, jewishinsider.com

“Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, amazon.com

“There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.”

— Mike Myers, Michael McCullers, Nigel Powers, Michael Caine, imdb.com

“History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.”

— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com

“Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the adva…”

— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com

“Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.”

— John McCain, en.wikiquote.org

“A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.”

— Pierre Trudeau, en.wikiquote.org