Prejudice Quotes - Page 7

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.

I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

Prejudice is ignorance.

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated

The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.