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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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.

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.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

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

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

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.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

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.