Prejudice Quotes - Page 27

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

I think that is what you want to do as a cinemagoer - to experience something fully. Some things don't let you experience them fully. It may be your own preordained prejudice where you can't experience them fully. But when you come out of the cinema having felt, thought, and experienced your way through two hours, that is a really cool thing.

I grew up doing plays - I went to a stage school after school - and it's always something that I've wanted to do, but, in a weird way, if you do television and film and you didn't go to drama school and don't have a theatrical background, it's hard to get your foot in the door. In the same way that it is for theater actors to get into television and film. There's a weird prejudice that goes both ways.

When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny, wry, perceptive contemporary observer to whom the subject matter seems almost as different and alien, and requiring as much struggling to understand, as it did to me.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices.

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.