Paul Harris Quotes

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Muslims have been hating us for centuries ….

… vulgar motive of national antipathy ...

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

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

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

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

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

Non-Muslims with some justice now regard the Muslims as little better than animals.

… whose hatred of the Jews in unbridgeable.

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own

You must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

Racists are deficient as human beings.

American hate is not new - and it is not scarce.

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.

My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.