It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction, — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice. — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
But really it’s condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they’re old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese.… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think that is what you want to do as a cinemagoer - to experience something fully. Some things don't let you… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As long as there will be homophobic, racist or simply bigoted parents, educators and writers, there will be discrimination, prejudice and other… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me. — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us. — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
“Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.” — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us. — Jose Serrano Copy Share Image
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“If you are ready to learn and evolve, there is hope for you yet - if not, the world will pity you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore,… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
