Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

I am the ism, my hate's a prism.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

I don't think I have an unkind word for any.Except Muslims. I've been cross with them since 9/11 2001. I can't remember why but it was something bad.

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.