Prejudice Quotes

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

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.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

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

As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

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

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

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

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

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.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

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

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.