Prejudice Quotes

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

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

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

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

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

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia