Prejudice Quotes - Page 18

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically.

Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.