Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether our certain thought or feeling or behavior is reasonable or not, what we must be aware of is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future,… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Before I was published, I thought men read car manuals or books about football. But once I started having really serious conversations… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability -… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' -… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
There was a lot of prejudice towards Russians in Latvia. When I went to school, often Latvians didn't like me, and Russians… — Lana Copy Share Image
Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others,… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice"… — Stephen Holden Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The hyping of disabled athletes into superhuman status by Channel 4 only deepens our wounds, inflicted by continual assaults on our daily… — Penny Pepper Copy Share Image
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause. 'Prejudice… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not… — William Pickens Copy Share Image
The world is as large as the range of one's interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The walls of his… — Joseph Jastrow Copy Share Image
O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven;… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
As the president's principal intelligence advisor, I would ensure that all intelligence is collected analyzed and reported without bias, prejudice or political… — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
It's hard to look at anything with an objective eye. I think people bring themselves into the equation when they watch a… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions,… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
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