Prejudice Quotes - Page 4

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.

The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices... A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

As far as horses go, people will ask about one breed versus another. I have to tell you, I really don't have any prejudice one way or another. I treat every horse at face value, how he/she is as an individual.

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.