Prejudice Quotes - Page 16

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

Be spacious. Open to listen and feel the other without prejudice.

A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

One word from you shall silence me forever.