Prejudice Quotes

“Peace begins where prejudice ends.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We have had a long wait for democracy.

— Chen Shui-bian

All words are prejudices.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

— Andre Gide

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

— Theocritus

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment

— Voltaire

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

— Charles W. Chesnutt

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

— Aesop

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

— Charles Lamb

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

— Siri Hustvedt

Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error

— Robert Hall

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

— Christopher Morley

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

— Prentice Mulford

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

— Will Durant

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

— Denis Diderot

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

— Mark Twain

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true…

— Samuel Hahnemann

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

— Ralph Washington Sockman

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out,

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

— Anonymous

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

— Bess Truman

“Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.”

— Charles S. Weinblatt

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them…

— R. Scott Bakker

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

— Spike Lee

“Travel can sometimes push us to lose ourselves and find ourselves at once. The shedding of old prejudices, dead skin, and the…

— M.B. Dallocchio

I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In…

— Anais Nin

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their…

— Dorothea Brande

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices,…

— M. Scott Peck

One of the genuine phenomenons over the past four decades has been the liberal community's steadfast insistence that God should be barred…

— Armstrong Williams

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking;…

— Immanuel Kant

I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing…

— Paul Robeson

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true…

— Frank Knox

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all…

— Adam Weishaupt

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may…

— Thomas Paine

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common…

— Isaac Newton

Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened…

— Pearl S. Buck

The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his…

— Paul Feyerabend

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments,…

— Judith Butler