Prejudice Quotes

Prejudice has no hold in this Republic.

— Leo Varadkar

We neither of us perform to strangers.

— Jane Austen

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

— Samuel Johnson

We can't abolish prejudice through laws.

— Belva Ann Lockwood

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

— Jane Austen

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

— Voltaire

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

— Vladimir Lenin

We must take the profit out of prejudice.

— Coleman Young

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

— Elbert Hubbard

I'm not weird! I'm just different. Who decides what's normal and what's not?

— Ely

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

— Chen Shui-bian

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

— Jane Austen

“Those who embrace prejudice doom themselves to live in ignorance.”

— John P Lintz Sr

“We tend to overlook only those vices that we also have.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

— Barney Frank

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

— Margaret Halsey

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

— Rod Serling

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

— Marquis de Sade

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

— Anatole France

I grew up in Welwyn Garden City, and when you're a woman of colour in a predominantly white area, you become aware…

— Alesha Dixon

“People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not…

— Anna Bayes

Mistakes and prejudices are as interesting as anything else. They reveal a lot about the mind set and culture of the time…

— Sean Michael Wilson

The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister…

— Andrew Davies

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero…The controversy has raised profound questions about…

— Christiane Amanpour

“So despite all political progress, social advancement, and appearance of acceptance, here was my grandmother speaking the voice of prejudice. It had…

— Monica Byrne

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of…

— Bernard Baruch

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a…

— William Howard Taft

“I have always thought foreigners with their unusual skin colours, mad languages and ignorant customs absolutely hilarious, and I think it's a…

— Arthur Mathews

We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged…

— Ronald Coase

Because of how I looked, there was definitely a prejudice against me. People didn't think I could play. I could see why:…

— Peter Crouch

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

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

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

But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at…

— Andre Dubus

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

“In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it,…

— Andrew Tobias

“The Caretaker, Sonnet What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.…

— Abhijit Naskar

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