Motivational Quotes

Prejudice

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Prejudice

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

Pope, Alexander

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Wilde, Oscar

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

W. C. Fields

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Hazlitt, William

The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.

Shaftesbury, Lord

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Voltaire

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

Cooper, James F.

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When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong.

Kane O'Hara

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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.

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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Crisp, Quentin

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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.

Gourmont, Remy De

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Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Peter, Laurence J.

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A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.

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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Sade, Marquis De

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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Rostand, Jean

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We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

Sussman, Rosalyn

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Washington, Booker T.

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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Lillian Hellman

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Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Howells, William Dean

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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices -- just recognize them.

Murrow, Edward R.

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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Gide, Andre

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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Nixon, Richard M.

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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.

George Aiken

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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Hazlitt, William

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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Voltaire

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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Samuel Johnson

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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

William Hazlitt

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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Johnson, Samuel

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

William James

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Reasoning against prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.

Mildmay

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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Sydney Smith

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The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Mencken, H. L.

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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Hazlitt, William

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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Francis Jeffrey

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I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago.

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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

Hoffer, Eric

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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

Chapman, John Jay