Antiquity Quote by Robert Hall

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by custom.

— Arthur Helps

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

— Henry David Thoreau

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

— Andre Gide

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough…

— Thomas Paine

The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better…

— Lord Chesterfield

When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule,…

— Anthony Trollope

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed…

— Wendell Phillips

The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

“It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations of the…

— David Hume

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do…

— Sigmund Freud

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ...…

— Henry David Thoreau

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

— Voltaire