B is for BIGOTRY

The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

Ephraim Gotthold Lessing

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.

Joseph Addison



Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin



Bigotry murders religion to frighten folks with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton






To follow foolish precedents, and wink
With both our eyes is easier than to think.

William Cowper



Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.

Owen Felltham (Feltham)

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Alexander Pope