Prejudice Quotes · Page 24

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

— Chen Shui-bian

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

— Anthony McGowan

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

— Dorothy Dandridge

Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take…

— Hillary Clinton

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

— Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

— Dana Spiotta

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Ruth Manorama

Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how…

— Robin DiAngelo

When I'm gigging, there's an uneasy shift when I pull a puppet out. People look at me aghast and I feel I…

— Nina Conti

Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that…

— Bernie Sanders

Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of…

— Virginia Postrel

“He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected…

— Neil Gaiman

The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to…

— Isabel Allende

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know…

— Mark Twain

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have…

— H. L. Mencken

“We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is…

— Carl Sagan

“It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations…

— David Hume

“Why don’t they complain?" "They do sometimes. But usually there's nothing in particular to complain about. Take the case of Hardy's appointment:…

— Amitav Ghosh

It was a good script [Something New]. We have not seen an interracial issue dealt with from a black woman and white…

— Sanaa Lathan

When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains…

— Shirley Chisholm

The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body…

— Guo Xiang

“You make someone into a object of – not so much of pity as of weakness, sickness, stupidity, inefectiveness, do you see…

— Ruth Rendell

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little…

— George Eliot

“Brain thrives on assumptions, that ain't the problem, trouble begins when all thought ends at assumption.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is…

— Abhijit Naskar

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy…

— Aleister Crowley

“the real thing behind the way folks feel is simply race prejudice—and I don’t say I’m blaming those that hold it.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

Sometime when life comes crashing down around all you need is a good friend to lean on and everything just seems that…

— Abhishek Tiwari

“Prejudice is the pinnacle of self injected ignorance. It enables poor choices to be pre-chosen.”

— Tom Althouse

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able…

— Winston Churchill

“They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.”

— Dick Gregory

As a British Muslim, I am no stranger to prejudice. I know what it's like to be discriminated against just because of…

— Sadiq Khan

I don't think every offensive comment is racism. But when I see real prejudice I have to call it out.

— Kemi Badenoch

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

— Jacque Fresco

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

— Roger Joseph Boscovich

I have suffered racial prejudice, and I know how painful it is. People need to take this issue more seriously and engage…

— Roberto Firmino

“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

— Lewis Schiff

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley