Prejudice Quotes - Page 9

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

I want to change the cycle of stigma and prejudice that destroys lives all over the world every day. Until we can get in front of people and awaken them to the idea that this is not acceptable.

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture.

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as we have seen earlier, are often built-in principles. They are the extract which the mind has made of experience.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.