Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. The second worst… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
We're all trained as actors to approach our characters with no prejudice, and take on the mindset and the spirit of the… — Rob Morgan Copy Share Image
Sadly, I've learnt that prejudice still exists in parts of the entertainment industry - I did an interview with a magazine once,… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Press conference [on the movie Carrington ] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
“No matter what any of you have done, you haven't all done it. Because it's not right to judge a class of… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth?… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
To fully understand the roots of anti-Asian prejudice in America, you need to know about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“And here is a prejudice of mine, confirmed by my lights through many years of observation. Sinners are not all dishonorable people,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they… — Tom Paulin 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:… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Prejudice by its very nature is a faulted perception of reality. The prejudiced person will always be playing a roulette wheel with… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In 1996, Muhammad Ali and I co-authored a short book about bigotry and prejudice that was keyed to religious and racial divisions.… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The denial with which many African leaders and communities greeted the appearance of HIV and AIDS across the continent in the 1990s… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always… — Luis Valdez Copy Share Image
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
“But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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