See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes…

“see how elastic our swift prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.”

— Herman Melville

“...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”

— Melville, Herman

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

— John Mason Brown

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Anonymous

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

— Marlene Dietrich

“...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of…

— George Eliot

An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.

— Ruth Manorama

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is…

— Allen Lacy

We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

— Albert Einstein

It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a…

— Dacia Maraini