Prejudice Quotes · Page 19

There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

— Shekhar Kapur

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

— Albert Camus

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“No matter how justified it might feel, prejudice will shackle you.”

— Jonathan Renshaw

Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

— Comtesse Diane

Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.

— Norm MacDonald

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

— Benny Goodman

“I only have one prejudice, and that is against those who are prejudiced.”

— Anonymous

“knowledge and fact meant nothing to people who were subjected to an adequate dose of fear and prejudice. This simple-mindedness was the…

— Annelie Wendeberg

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success…

— Major Taylor

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Cognitive bias is the biggest self-imposed obstacle to progress, not only for oneself but in the end, for all mankind.

— Anonymous

I think that there's still a lot of prejudice going on. I don't really think it's only an issue of football. I…

— Clarence Seedorf

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.

— Albert Einstein

My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for…

— Frederick Lenz

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

— Buchi Emecheta

“A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made…

— Terry Pratchett

“It almost never feels like prejudice. Instead, it feels fitting and just - the idea that, because of an accident of birth,…

— Carl Sagan

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a…

— Colin Wilson

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice…

— Thomas Willis

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of…

— Whitney Balliett

That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're…

— Buck Brannaman

“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what…

— Abhijit Naskar

I found myself defending America a lot in England. They were always asking me racial questions. I'd say, 'You've got prejudice here,…

— Paula Kelly

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we…

— William James

“I hold no preconceived prejudice against anyone," he'd said, "because to do so is utter folly for someone in my line of…

— Jeffrey Ford

The mental cognitive processes that we're targeting are ones that narrow human beings' repertoire and make it harder for them to learn…

— Steven C. Hayes

“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or…

— Ray Bradbury

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as…

— Jane Austen

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have…

— Ian Kershaw

You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a…

— Sarah Caudwell

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

— William Hazlitt

“Anything, seen without prejudice, is enormous.”

— Mervyn Peake

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

— Wendell Phillips

One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

— Elias Canetti

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

— Jane Porter

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

— Jennifer Ehle

I wasn't burdened by a personal history of prejudice. It's part of why I thought Barack could win.

— Valerie Jarrett

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

— Hal Duncan