Best 1051 quotes in «prejudice quotes» category

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is [older]. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.