Prejudice famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.
-- A. W. F. Edwards -
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.
-- Albert Camus -
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
-- Albert Einstein -
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
-- Albert Einstein -
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
-- Aleister Crowley -
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
-- Alice Childress -
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
-- Allan Bloom -
The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.
-- Allen West -
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free
-- Amelia Bloomer -
What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
-- Anais Nin -
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
-- Anais Nin -
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
-- Andre Gide -
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
-- Andrew Motion -
Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.
-- Anil Ambani -
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
-- Anita Hill -
There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
-- Anita Sarkeesian -
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
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.
-- Anna Paquin -
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, world view and thoughts.
-- Annie Proulx -
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.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
-- Anthony McGowan -
When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.
-- Anthony Romero -
All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.
-- Arthur Symons -
Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.
-- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg -
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
-- Aubrey Thomas de Vere -
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
-- Augustus Hare -
Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.
-- Augustus William Hare -
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
-- Barney Frank -
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.
-- Bayard Rustin -
I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
-- Beatrix Potter -
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood -
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
-- Benjamin Haydon -
If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
-- Benny Goodman -
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.
-- Bernadette Devlin -
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.
-- Bernard Baruch -
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
-- Bertha Knight Landes -
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
-- Bess Truman -
The air is the only place free from prejudices.
-- Bessie Coleman -
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
-- Betty Friedan -
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
-- Bill Vaughan -
In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.
-- Bob Gibson -
In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination.
-- Bob Hawke -
I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.
-- Bobbi Gibb -
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
-- Bram Fischer -
The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.
-- Brigid Schulte -
As far as horses go, people will ask about one breed versus another. I have to tell you, I really don't have any prejudice one way or another. I treat every horse at face value, how he/she is as an individual.
-- Buck Brannaman -
The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
-- Byron White -
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.
-- Carl Jung -
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
-- Carlo Goldoni -
What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt -
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
-- Casey Miller -
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
-- Celia Green -
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
-- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -
Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.
-- Charles Brent -
A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
-- Charles Kettering -
I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
-- Charles Lamb -
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction,
-- Charles Lindbergh -
If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
Taiwan is an independent sovereign country.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.
-- Cher -
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table
-- Christie Hefner -
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
-- Christopher Lasch -
We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.
-- Chuck Norris -
I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
-- Claire Foy -
What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
-- Clint Eastwood -
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.
-- Colin Wilson -
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.
-- Condoleezza Rice -
The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.
-- Curt Weldon -
Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
-- Dalia Mogahed -
I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
-- Dan Abrams -
We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
-- David Boies -
It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice
-- David Landes -
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
-- David Lloyd George
