- The quality or condition of being intolerant; lack of tolerance.
- Medicine. Extreme sensitivity or allergy to a drug, food, or other substance: lactose intolerance.
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Inability to withstand or consume; inability to absorb or metabolize nutrients.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
— Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian spiritual and political leader.
Quotes:
"Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
- Wallace Stevens
"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."
- George Santayana
"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."
- Aleister Crowley
"If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now."
- Salman Rushdie
"Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state."
- Samuel Davies
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Intolerance is the lack of ability or willingness to tolerate something.
As the debate as to what to do about other people's intolerance continues, what is often ignored is how to recognize and deal with one's own.
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