Prejudice Quotes - Page 6

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.

It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

We must take the profit out of prejudice.

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.