Best 1051 quotes in «prejudice quotes» category

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do

It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against attempts to introduce the methods and language of mathematics into any branch of the moral sciences. Most persons appear to hold that the physical sciences form the proper sphere of mathematical method, and that the moral sciences demand some other method-I know not what.

It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.

I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way I can control the story you tell yourself from my book. Your own experiences, preferences, prejudices, mood at the moment, current events in your life, needs and wants influence how you read my every word.

I've borne these two kids into a particularly strange circumstance. They are going to have to fend off a lot and protect themselves from a lot of projections and prejudice about who they are, coming from the family that they come from.

I've done a lot of video games and stuff, and I'm getting better and better at it. I don't have a prejudice about it being a different medium.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

I want to change the cycle of stigma and prejudice that destroys lives all over the world every day. Until we can get in front of people and awaken them to the idea that this is not acceptable.

I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

I would like to see every gay doctor come out, every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out, stand up and let that world know. That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody would imagine. I urge them to do that, urge them to come out. Only that way will we start to achieve our rights.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.