Martin Gardner Quotes

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

There is no delete button for bigotry.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

You have to be taught to hate.

You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.

How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?

Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all wrong. It's all the same.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others.