Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies.

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

I don’t like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.

It gives space to these groups that foment hatred and intolerance.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.