Best 1051 quotes in «prejudice quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.

If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

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 don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny, wry, perceptive contemporary observer to whom the subject matter seems almost as different and alien, and requiring as much struggling to understand, as it did to me.

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.