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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
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There is no bigotry like that of free thought run to seed.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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