Prejudice Quotes · Page 9

What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.

— Tony Blair

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

— Tim Robbins

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

— William Feather

“Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.”

— Raheel Farooq

Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming.

— Susan Dorothea White

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

— David Ruggles

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice,

— Marie Colvin

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.

— Aubrey Thomas de Vere

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

— Anonymous

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

— Victor Hugo

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

— John Locke

The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

— Judith Stacey

True bigotry is when you can't see the facts because your own beliefs are blocking the way.

— Lawrence D Elliott

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader...

— Aberjhani

“We cannot let our hurts, fears, and prejudices get in the way of God’s calling for our lives.”

— Teresa Schultz

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

— W. Eugene Smith

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to…

— Vaclav Klaus

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle…

— Kate Chopin

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

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution…

— William Hazlitt

“Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the…

— Richard Rohr

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial…

— Harvey Fierstein

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political…

— David Brin

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the…

— Christopher Morley

“Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but…

— Richard Wright

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,…

— Anton Chekhov

It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is…

— Dimitrije Tucovic

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias…

— Albert Einstein

Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in…

— Peter Senge

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I…

— Jane Austen

I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your…

— Harlan Ellison

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law…

— Hannah Arendt

Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.

— Taboo

“A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.”

— Jack Gardner

“Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.”

— DaShanne Stokes

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

— Muhammad Ali

“And like many wars it was built upon a mindless prejudice.”

— Samantha Young

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

— Albert Einstein

“He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice favour runs in favour of two.”

— Charles Dickens

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

— Sarah Louise Delany