Prejudice Quotes · Page 21

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

— Clare Boothe Luce

A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses…

— Sidney Abbott

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

— Oscar Wilde

American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands.

— Mike Huckabee

“There is but one supremacy... and it remains known and unknown to it's human creation... of many hues, shapes and sizes.”

— T.F. Hodge

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes,…

— George Santayana

Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

— Florence King

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

— Joseph O'Connor

In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without…

— Rajneesh

There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and…

— Roger Bacon

Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we…

— Aldous Huxley

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you…

— John Jay Chapman

“Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin.…

— Victor Hugo

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in…

— Joe Biden

In a certain way we are all the same. Our defects and our qualities are what make us different from one another,…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an…

— Paul Rusesabagina

I think it's fair to say there is a demagogic path that Europeans, South Americans, Asians have pursued, and we know where…

— Hillary Clinton

Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's…

— Clarence Jordan

Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body… Astonishingly,…

— Elinor Guggenheimer

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with…

— Jane Austen

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

“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

I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits…

— Clarence Thomas

“Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because…

— Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.

— Rush

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

— Germaine Greer

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

— Samuel Johnson

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

— Helen Hayes

“The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and…

— Anonymous

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

— John Fowles

“We can understand the historical reasons why many embrace hatred, while refusing to surrender to the ills of the past.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.”

— Irene Nemirovsky

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to…

— Mark Twain

“The world has plenty room for everyone, but no world is room enough for the bigot.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“People are always afraid of anything different. They are afraid of change," says Sensai. "It is the same everywhere.”

— Sandy Fussell

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

— Malachi Kirby

When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on…

— Bong Joon-ho

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.”

— Richard Matheson