J. D. Pardo Quotes

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

I'm not good with bullies and zealots.

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

The Muslim community here does feel under siege.

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 biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

I've been atheist since I became aware of the term, but my material is not all about religion - not by a long shot - and when I do address the topic, it is to point out where religiosity meets discrimination.

Hate is taught; victimhood is taught.

Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

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

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 philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.