Best Prejudice Wisdom
1094 Prejudice quotes by 751 unique authors
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life…
— Oscar Wilde
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Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It…
— Walter Annenberg
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It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.
— Roger Bacon
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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.
— Betty Friedan
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When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits…
— Shirley Chisholm
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Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave…
— Edmund Burke
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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and…
— Ray Bradbury
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The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be…
— James Madison
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The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris…
— George H. W. Bush
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
— Herman Melville
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Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.
— Henry George
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Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.
— Tariq Ramadan
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Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything -…
— Clive James
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and…
— Karl Popper
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One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
— Belva Ann Lockwood
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There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
— Ernestine Rose
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as…
— William Hazlitt
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Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind;…
— Frederick William Faber
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It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.
— Albert Einstein
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There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because…
— Louise Thaden
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Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why…
— Cornelia Fort
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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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