Bigotry

(282 votes)   Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(99 votes)   You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(87 votes)   Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

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(84 votes)   We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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