Prejudice Quotes - Page 13

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.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.

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

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

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.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .