Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are.… — John Byrne Copy Share Image
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There is so much closed-mindedness, there is so much closed-off thought, there is so much bigotry and prejudice within knowledge that it,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Often, very talented technical people find it extraordinarily difficult to take the viewpoint of customers, who are often ignorant about the technology… — Barbara Bund Copy Share Image
So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
“the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Dead Men's Tale (The Sonnet) They say, time and tide wait for none, Lest the bird learns it can fly. The best… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel Copy Share Image
The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“In some countries, the strictly Progressive man reveals himself to be just as much as if not more prejudiced than the typical… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“we often found ourselves handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice. Many of us have been so touchy that even casual reference… — William Silkworth Copy Share Image
If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Overnight, our neighbors began to look at us differently. Maybe it was the little girl down the road who no longer waved… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'. They simply cipher and… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real… — Richard Farson Copy Share Image
“In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it,… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for… — Hal Crowther Copy Share Image
“The Caretaker, Sonnet What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone… — Neville Bonner Copy Share Image
In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master… — Harry Woodburn Chase Copy Share Image
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
