Neil Strauss Quotes

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

The difference breeds hatred.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

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

People are so quick to demonize and stereotype those on the other side that they often say that it's impossible to work with people on the other side.

The loudest voices both in the U.S. and abroad often are those that preach hatred and exclusion. But hatred and exclusion will not bring employment.

But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

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.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars.

Educational systems should be vehicles to tolerance, not tools for propaganda, and should never be used to install enmity and hatred. One of the root causes of the ongoing tragic events in the Middle East was the systematic misuse of education through schools and the media by the Palestinian Authority.

If there are infidels here, then beat them up. Do not tolerate them…. They are like crawling worms, snakes, and maggots.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

Israel will never surrender to hatred.