Francis Schaeffer Quotes

Hate is a lack of imagination.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

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

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

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness.

Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding.

The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that where ever others differ from them it is so far error.

I really don't want to offend anybody, but I find all forms of religious fundamentalism frightening.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

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.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

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

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.