To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“This is not a book about whether one can be good without God, because that question does not need to be answered… — Greg Epstein Copy Share Image
Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
If we were the problem, it would be very convenient, kick Greece out, everything's fine. But what happened to Spain? What about… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“In a way, I owe the invitation to the incredible, abysmal, and really cowardly obtuseness of white liberals. Whether in private debate… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“In Britain I found things to be very different. I have yet to meet a single English person who has actually admitted… — E.R. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident -… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“That's the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores--when… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism, in and of itself, is benign and can be personally beneficial, but the anger and prejudice generated by extreme beliefs can… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
There will always be people who say mean words because you are different, and sometimes their minds cannot be changed. But there… — Starfire Copy Share Image
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
When I'm gigging, there's an uneasy shift when I pull a puppet out. People look at me aghast and I feel I… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Satvajaya can decondition the mind so we can see things fresh, like with the eyes of a child. Satvajaya techniques rid us… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's different to read a book for pleasure than to read it analytically. In the past, I'd read Pride and Prejudice for… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are separated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Recently, I have seen an increasing amount of disdain for political corectness, and I’ve been wondering why. Why is there so much… — Cate O'Brien Copy Share Image
Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not… — John Adams Copy Share Image