PREJUDICE QUOTES II

quotations about prejudice

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones.

LADY GAGA

Twitter post, June 7, 2010


I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

ROD SERLING

Los Angeles Times, 1967

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PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary

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We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.

MUHAMMAD ALI

"New Again: Muhammad Ali", Interview Magazine

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You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections

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Any pattern of belief which is formed as a result of an unthinking or conditioning process may be called prejudice. All such beliefs are unreasoned; not all of them, however, are unreasonable.

H. GORDON HULLFISH & PHILIP G. SMITH

Reflective Thinking: The Method of Education


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

ALBERT EINSTEIN

attributed, "The Universe and Dr. Einstein", Harper's Magazine, May 1948

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Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections

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Undoubtedly it is our duty, and for our best good, that we occupy and improve the faculties, with which our creator has endowed us, but so far as prejudice, or prepossession of opinion prevails over our minds, in the same proportion, reason is excluded from our theory or practice. Therefore if we would acquire useful knowledge, we must first divest ourselves of those impediments and sincerely endeavor to search out the truth: and draw our conclusions from reason and just argument, which will never conform to our inclination, interest or fancy but we must conform to that if we would judge rightly.

ETHAN ALLEN

Reason: The Only Oracle of Man

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If we would indicate an idea which, throughout the whole course of history, has ever more and more widely extended its empire, or which, more than any other, testifies to the much-contested and still more decidedly misunderstood perfectibility of the whole human race, it is that of establishing our common humanity -- of striving to remove the barriers which prejudice and limited views of every kind have erected among men, and to treat all mankind, without reference to religion, nation, or color, as one fraternity, one great community, fitted for the attainment of one object, the unrestrained development of the physical powers. This is the ultimate and highest aim of society.

WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT

Kosmos

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The fact is, that no man, whatever his system may be, refrains from instilling prejudices into his child in any matter he has much at heart.

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

Tales, Poems and Essays

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Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.

ANTHONY ASTLEY COOPER

attributed, Day's Collacon


You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you.

BRAM STOKER

Dracula

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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

GORE VIDAL

"Sex and the Law", Homage to Daniel Shays

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By death prejudice is annihilated.

GEORGE BANCROFT

Literary and Historical Miscellanies


I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Emile or On Education

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Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

MICHAEL CRICHTON

State of Fear

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We are involved so early in the prejudices of so many whose interest is concerned to communicate them to us, that it becomes extremely difficult to distinguish through the rest of life what is natural to us and what is artificial.

ST. PIERRE

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is difficult for an individual to decide--as he might decide some morning, say, not to shave--to be rational (reasonable) rather than to remain prejudiced. Prejudices are rooted in such deep feelings that it does not occur to us to question them.

H. GORDON HULLFISH & PHILIP G. SMITH

Reflective Thinking: The Method of Education


Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Would You Slap Your Father?