Marianne Williamson Quotes

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

The committee will be composed of open-minded people who agree with me.

If you have ideology, you are less tolerant of the variant point of view.

All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right

I don’t care for ideological people. It’s like those people just want to stop thinking.

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.

The Left sees no place for differing opinions.

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.

I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.

People have now been absorbing only that they agree with. You know, part of it is if you're liberal, you consume liberal information. If you're a conservative, you consume conservative information. And there's a certain stridency in both that you know everything, and if somebody doesn't agree with you, you think they don't know what they're talking about, and you become intolerant.

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

Intolerance is a beautiful thing...There are people that are politically correct that want to say the cardinal sin of the hour is intolerance and I think that is a bunch of junk.

The left's propulsion is hate, and they have to have an outlet for the hate. They hate so much. They hate many elements of America. They hate people that don't think the way they do. It's not just that they disagree, they hate, and this energy requires action. People on the right, they don't hate anybody. We want everybody to get along, when you get right down to it. We're Rodney King types, actually.