Their Prejudices Quotes

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It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors… — Maya Angelou
The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of… — Oswald Chambers
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon W. Allport
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their… — Hans Eysenck
When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish. — Muhammad Ali
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe… — Lancelot Hogben
Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices. — Howard G. Hendricks
What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the… — Beverly Engel
When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their… — Benjamin Franklin
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens… — Dorothea Brande
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show,… — Adam Weishaupt
Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and… — Jennifer Stone
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. — Thomas Sowell
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their… — Reinhold Niebuhr
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of… — John Henry Mackay
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. — Luther Burbank
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. — William James
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult… — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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