Mehdi Hasan Quotes

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

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

Whoever kindles the flame of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.

Most racist people are like sheep. They are people without backbones.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

Everyone that we disagree with is a racist and a homophobe and Islamophobe and a bigot. It's just silly. It's lazy thinking, and I think it gets us nowhere.

The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

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

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.