Prejudice Quotes - Page 20

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth.'

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is his call to stop all Muslims from entering the United States.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.