Prejudice Quotes · Page 8

The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep…

— George H. W. Bush

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

— Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced…

— Richard van der Riet Woolley

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

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

— Thomas Kuhn

In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after…

— Emmett Tyrrell

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

— Abraham Coles

“Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

— William Feather

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated…

— Karl Marx

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged…

— Linda Chavez

“Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a…

— Zadie Smith

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

“Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your…

— Edmund de Waal

D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If…

— Malorie Blackman

Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries --…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

“This is not a book about whether one can be good without God, because that question does not need to be answered…

— Greg Epstein

What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

— Jinkx Monsoon

When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all…

— Benjamin Franklin

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they…

— Tom Paulin

I might have been lucky to grow up in the 90s, but I think, actually, we started getting complacent about prejudice. We…

— Nish Kumar

The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom…

— Thomas Paine

“Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to coloured people. Elizabeth smiles like she's talking to a child,…

— Kathryn Stockett

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from…

— Jane Austen

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

— Gloria Steinem