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Tag Name "Prejudice" (939)

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Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
Anais Nin
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All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.
Thomas Banchoff
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The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free
Amelia Bloomer
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Ambrose Bierce
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Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
Ambrose Bierce
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It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.
Katherine Paterson
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
Vladimir Lenin
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I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.
Ray Floyd
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Allan Bloom
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The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
John Tillotson
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It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
Wendell Willkie
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Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.
Charles Darwin
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
Will Durant
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Samuel Johnson
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope
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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.
Roger Bacon
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There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price or as the serious.
Alexander Hamilton
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To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes and this is not the work of a day.
Benjamin Franklin
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Alexander Cockburn
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
Jane Austen
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Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
John Locke
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Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
William Feather
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I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.
William Gibson
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
William Golding
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