Prejudice Quotes
1094 quotes by 780 authors
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam…
— Karen Armstrong
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
— Karen Armstrong
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons;…
— Mary Astell
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to…
— Jane Austen
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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of…
— Jane Austen
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
— George Bancroft
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so…
— Bernard Baruch
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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
— Tony Benn
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest…
— Felix Adler
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going on in the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most…
— Andrea Bocelli
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People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in…
— Anthony Bourdain
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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes…
— George Aiken
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
— Barbara Bush
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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog…
— John Jay Chapman
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
— Maya Angelou
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