Prejudice Quotes

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow...

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the fi...

Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more ...

Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, b...

For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search ...

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthi...

Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a det...

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion...

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, dri...

But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by anci...

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned...

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned...

And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, ...

A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and...

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one ...

Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language...

Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudice...

I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, ...

What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in s...

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't d...

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with ...

He knew that he, Millat, was a Paki no matter where he came from; that he smelled of curry; had no s...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers...

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that...

He hears but half who hears one party only.

Please don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that...

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them withou...

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, I doubt if there ...

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated pe...

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Coun...

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Coun...

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of...

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

Why don’t they complain?""They do sometimes. But usually there's nothing in particular to complain a...

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. ...

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejud...

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convin...

Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but ...

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily bea...

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate th...

As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed t...

Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those diff...

Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are ofte...

…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in...

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never o...

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what ...

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you wi...

Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which...

As you, my fans, know I’m scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also kn...

Hate obscures all distinctions.

We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoeve...

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you

Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, temptin...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...

There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we t...

In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poet...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prej...

Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties, he said.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the...

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures b...

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after ...

They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pre...

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see...

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see...

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see...

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them...

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are...

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so har...

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in wha...