Best 1051 quotes in «prejudice quotes» category

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.

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 has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

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

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.

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.

... 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

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.

Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

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.

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

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.