The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all… — Pearl Primus Copy Share Image
“...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Press conference [on the movie Carrington ] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Man, sometimes you are clueless. You don’t even see what’s happening.” He perched himself on the arm of the couch so he… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed.… — Arenda L. Wright Allen Copy Share Image
“If a man fears dogs, he may beat one with a stick when he sees it. As is the nature of all… — Adriana Mather Copy Share Image
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“My nation, your nation, my religion, your religion, my culture, your culture, will be the end of us apes - outwardly fancy,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science,… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Libertarianism, the political philosophy of rugged individualism, ought to hold a natural appeal to tolerant, anti-statist, free-trade conservatives who deplore the turn… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices… — Mel White Copy Share Image
Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace:… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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