Ben Domenech Quotes

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

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

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

There is not a city, no, not a town, in which a man suspected of holding democratic principles could move abroad without receiving some unpleasant proof of the hatred in which his supposed opinions were held by the great majority of the people.

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

That’s the trouble with inquisitors and censors. They become fascinated by what they deplore.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

Lives are destroyed by many things. They are destroyed by anti-racism too, as Ray Honeyford's was.

Hate numbs the judgment, paralyzes the vitals of democracy.

Anyone who's speaking up about anything becomes a target.

Hate speech is a specie of terrorism.

That's what the new definition of racist is: It's a conservative that's winning an argument!

The mindset of a terrorist and the mindset of intolerance know no territorial boundaries when individuals are targeted either for their eating habits or for any other reason.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.

People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

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

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

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.

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.