Best 1051 quotes in «prejudice quotes» category

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.

Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.

Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to know in our heart it's wrong. And we all want to remember that we are connected. And that any kind of racism is wrong.

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.