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

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.

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

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

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

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

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

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.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome.

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.

The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky.

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.