Enid Bagnold Quotes

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

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

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Hate-racial, tribal, religious, ancestral, national, social, ethical, political, economic, ideological-in itself represents the inexorable defeat of mankind, its absolute defeat. If there is an area in which mankind cannot claim the slightest progress, this surely is it. It does not take much for human beings, collectively or individually, to suddenly one day pit themselves like wild beasts one against the other, their worst instincts laid bare, in a state of deleterious exaltation. One decision, one simple word, and a family or a community will drown in blood or perish in flames. Why is there so much violence, so much hate? How is it conceived, transmitted, fertilized, nurtured? As we face the disquieting, implacable rise of intolerance and fanaticism on more than one continent, it is our duty to expose the danger. By naming it. By confronting it.

Religious clerics have a big share in the rise on intolerance towards minorities. A country like Pakistan where literacy rate is low and people are naïve when it comes on opinion making, it becomes easy to be successful in manipulating people’s minds. The manipulation of their opinions by those who are extremists in their views and beliefs always meet disaster. These clerics have played an ugly role most of the times and their preaching of hate speech always led to more sufferings and disaster for minorities

The counsels of impatience and hatred can always be supported by the crudest and cheapest symbols; for the counsels of moderation, the reasons are often intricate, rather than emotional, and difficult to explain

Islam is a malignant cancer.

I personally am not religious. I think, put into the wrong hands, it's incredibly dangerous. It's the reason for most of the wars that have been fought around the world, and it's pretty ridiculous when you think about what they're actually arguing over.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

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

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

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

Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.