Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

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?

I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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

Christians ought not to persecute one another, and that only for small differences in opinion, when what is right or wrong for the most part remains a doubt and uncertain; whil'st the evils are only certain that such disputes produce.

Dislike of another’s opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.

That is just the way it is with some people. They will get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

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

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

We can't always agree on everything.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.