Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful and a very sad reminder of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We all have a mission to accomplish in this life... Mine is the one to show everyone that, by respecting one another's… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political… — David Brin Copy Share Image
While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
“Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when,… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences.… — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
You are supposed to look at the unimproved and think about the way that we dismiss so-called 'chavs' and certain immigrant classes… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“How do we understand prejudice, hatred, and violence in the context of modern societies, like our own, among people much like ourselves,… — Helmut Walser Smith Copy Share Image
When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are hated for the color of our skin or our beliefs, people will see you and judge you before they… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
