Prejudice Quotes - Page 10

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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

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

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

Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.

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

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!

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

We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

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

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

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.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

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.

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.

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.

Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.