Prejudice Quotes · Page 33

“People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.”

— Ray A. Davis

Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests.

— Ann Widdecombe

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— William James

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and…

— Nelson Mandela

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human…

— Mark Twain

Someday, I hope I live in a world where people look at the heart of a person instead of the color of…

— Anonymous

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual…

— Wes Nisker

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices…

— Walter Lippmann

It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk…

— O. T. Fagbenle

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives…

— Rob Lowe

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey. BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking…

— Lorraine Hansberry

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and…

— Emily Saliers

Remember the attorney general is not a member of the president's staff. He's the attorney general of the United States. He's there…

— Patrick Leahy

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all…

— Lord Byron

When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I…

— Anderson Silva

The mental cognitive processes that we're targeting are ones that narrow human beings' repertoire and make it harder for them to learn…

— Steven C. Hayes

Fear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but…

— Anonymous

Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident…

— Henri Matisse

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which,…

— P. D. James

Just understand, don't choose - don't choose even choicelessness. Simply understand the whole situation: that whatsoever you choose, whatsoever you do, will…

— Rajneesh

“So weak are their [Men's] intellectuals, and so untuned are their organs to the voice of reason, that custom makes more absolute…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the…

— William James

I've certainly encountered prejudice. An awful lot of people do get upset if they 'clock' that I'm trans.

— Rebecca Root

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

— Tariq Ramadan

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

— Neil Peart

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

— Steve Coogan

“Derren ground his teeth. “I don’t like Seers.” And she didn’t like being surrounded by prejudice, but, hey, life was full of…

— Suzanne Wright

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather…

— M. Scott Peck

Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

— Mina Loy

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

— Josephine Lawrence

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

— Ernest Dimnet

What Donald Trump has done is to make it possible for people who had racist, sexist, and all kinds of prejudices and…

— Hillary Clinton

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.

— Carolina Herrera

I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world.

— Robert Paul Weston

I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

— Mercedes Lackey