Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again. — William Forsythe Copy Share Image
More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents. — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it,… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
“If I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for… — Hal Crowther Copy Share Image
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master… — Harry Woodburn Chase Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Ignoring parent concerns or pretending they're solely driven by prejudice and partisanship will not earn it back. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more… — Graham Freudenberg Copy Share Image
Homophobia is the idiocy in person. It's a harmful and destructive behavior that must be discouraged by all and every peaceful but… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it. — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality. — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ... — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that millions of people with mental illness suffer stigma and prejudice, especially at work. — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Everybody means by an open mind, a mind which contains their prejudices but not somebody else's.” — John Oulton Wisdom Copy Share Image
I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians… — Gallagher Copy Share Image
