Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The results of the two referenda demonstrate the majority view of the Taiwanese people. — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every… — Redd Foxx Copy Share Image
Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom. — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
“We jumped into a waiting bus, and two Negro laborers followed us. We did not drop any money in the slot; the… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“In that instant I regretted my indiscretion, and I have never really known if it was a form of compensation of because… — Leonardo Padura Fuentes Copy Share Image
Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
“I hold no preconceived prejudice against anyone," he'd said, "because to do so is utter folly for someone in my line of… — Jeffrey Ford Copy Share Image
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we… — William James Copy Share Image
From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“Witches, warlocks, gremlins, ogres - they're just words, labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?” — Anna Fienberg Copy Share Image
“When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing?” — Katharine Eliska Kimbriel Copy Share Image
In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice. — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased... There is a great charity always to the dead.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image