Prejudice Quotes - Page 14

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.

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.

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.

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

Good managers have a bias for action.