Best 1051 quotes in «prejudice quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

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

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 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.

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 favor.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

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

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.

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

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

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

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.

I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.