Prejudice Quotes

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.