Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
He hears but half who hears one party only.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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.
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.
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
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