Mark Twain Quotes About Prejudice

• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Writing History, Historical

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

• I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Book, Writing

• Travel is lethal to prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Prejudice

• Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Skulls, Prejudice

• I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  "Concerning the Jews" (1899)

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Prejudice, Easy

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.371, Courier Corporation

• Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

  Mark Twain

  Prejudice, Investing, Our Thoughts

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

• I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Men, Race

• You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Principles, Prejudice

  Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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