For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It’s a terrible thing to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor. — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking;… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold… — Arin Murphy-Hiscock Copy Share Image
I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Soaps are a double-edged sword. There can be prejudice from some writers and producers who feel you will lower the currency of… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves,… — Booker Washington; T. 8vo Copy Share Image
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit… — John Stott Copy Share Image
It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice. — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time. — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
