#intolerance

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And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings alone were the way that others must follow, and claimed special knowledge of something that had happened more than five centuries ago. It did nothing to soften its rigid stance, nothing to heal wounds that it had helped to create by deliberately shunning people of other Races, and nothing to explore the possibility of other beliefs. It held its ground even in the face of hard evidence that perhaps it had misjudged and refused to consider that it was courting a danger that might destroy everyone. p96


Terry Brooks


#prejudice #racism #racism

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#i #intolerance #seen #shown #support

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.


Princess Diana


#everyone #greatest #greatest problem #intolerance #intolerant

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.


Mahatma Gandhi


#cause #faith #intolerance #want

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.


Joseph Story


#advisable #ambition #consciousness #dangers #deemed

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.


Gary Locke


#beijing #china #clear #direction #dissent

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.


Charles de Secondat


#eclipse #fact #human #human reason #intolerance

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 Žižek


#intolerance #liberalism #sexual-harassment #tolerance #liberalism

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.


Abdul Qadeer Khan


#hatred #help #illiteracy #intolerance #needy

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.


Jasper Fforde


#buildings #greed #hate #humor #intolerance