“ I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ I make my living half as a critic, so I think that opinionated would be a good thing for a critic to be. And I think crankiness has some sort of connotation of individualism. ”
- Sarah Vowell- Copy
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“ I find it incredibly sexist, because one need only look at Thomas in terms of intellectual heft. ”
- Barbara Mikulski- Copy
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“ There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ”
- George Gordon Byron- Copy
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“ I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am on grateful to those teachers. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity; the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. ”
- Robert F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other. ”
- Princess Diana- Copy
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“ No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ She began the first of what we later called 'my lessons in living.' She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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“ Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. ”
- Kahlil Gibron- Copy
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“ In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by being opinionated rather than by being learned. ”
- A. N. Wilson- Copy
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