Prejudice Quotes · Page 25

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or…

— Andrew Solomon

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

— Gore Vidal

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— William James

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person…

— William Shenstone

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

— Eric Hoffer

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.

— Katharine Viner

We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of…

— Bell Hooks

Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future,…

— Enoch Powell

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

Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved…

— Lancelot Hogben

The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of…

— Thabo Mbeki

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party…

— Dorothea Brande

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that…

— Loretta Sanchez

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders.…

— Paul Keating

Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to…

— Edmond de Goncourt

You are determined to hate him [Snape], Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. “And I understand; with James as your father,…

— Anonymous

“People who hate gays aren't prejudiced because of some obscure passage in the BOok of Leviticus. This prejudice, like every other prejudice,…

— William Bernhardt

A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting…

— Samuel Smiles

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up,…

— Booker T. Washington

We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself…

— Emma Goldman

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought,…

— Northrop Frye

Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is…

— Barack Obama

“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.”

— DaShanne Stokes

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic

— Tryon Edwards

When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become…

— Paulo Coelho

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

— Salman Rushdie

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

— John Oliver Killens

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so…

— Jon Meacham

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the…

— Joseph Conrad

the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.

— Laura Bohannan

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot,…

— Genesis P-Orridge

I think the generosity of President Trump's spirit, recognizing that in the patriot's heart, there's no room for prejudice is part of…

— Mike Pence

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

— Dennis Miller

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.

— Anonymous

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

— Rose Macaulay

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

— William Hazlitt