Prejudice Quotes · Page 23

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

— Anthony Romero

“You do have one prejudice though. I looked back at her again from under the brim of my hat. "You don't care…

— Craig Johnson

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

— Judith Light

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American…

— Paul Harris

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

— Henry Moore

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities…

— Frederick Douglass

“This is how hatred begins -- with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door.”

— Teresa R. Funke

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody…

— Hans Eysenck

Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female…

— Pedro Almodovar

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd…

— Jane Austen

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are…

— Adam Weishaupt

Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when…

— Anonymous

There will always be people who say mean words because you are different, and sometimes their minds cannot be changed. But there…

— Starfire

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation…

— Kofi Annan

Satvajaya can decondition the mind so we can see things fresh, like with the eyes of a child. Satvajaya techniques rid us…

— David Frawley

We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It frequently happens that in proportion as we are taught to dislike persons and countries, not knowing why, we feel an ardor…

— Thomas Paine

“[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose,…

— Christine de Pizan

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life…

— Philip Kapleau

There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's…

— Howard Zinn

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated…

— Karl Marx

When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I think that is what you want to do as a cinemagoer - to experience something fully. Some things don't let you…

— Colin Farrell

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

— Alain LeRoy Locke

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

— Lillian Hellman

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

— Christina Baldwin

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

— Katy Perry

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

— William Hazlitt

“Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the…

— Montague Brown

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

— Claire Foy

“The only real remedy for the problem of racial prejudice is the transforming power of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

— R. Albert Mohler Jr

I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any…

— Anna Meredith

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches…

— Hugh Hefner

Knowing about the horrors of the past imparts a responsibility to call out prejudice in the world today.

— Lindsay Hoyle

I've done a lot of video games and stuff, and I'm getting better and better at it. I don't have a prejudice…

— Lance Henriksen

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

— Allan Bloom

“[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from…

— Lorraine Hansberry

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

— John Tillotson

Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

— Abdu'l-Bahá