Ignorance And Prejudice Quotes

• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Use It Or Lose It, Prejudice

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• Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

  Kofi Annan

  Ignorance, Hands, Racism

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• Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Ignorance, Men, Racism

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.52

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• Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Ignorance, Prejudice

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• Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

  H. G. Wells

  Ignorance, Catholic, Church

  H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.155, Book Tree

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• Fear always springs from ignorance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Fear, Spring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Prejudice

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

  Joseph Addison

  Ignorance, Self, Inexperience

  Joseph Addison (1853). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.139

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• Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Stubborn

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• A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Ignorance, Science, Ignorant

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• Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Real, Race, Prejudice

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• Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ignorance, Government, Errors

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• When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.

  Barrows Dunham

  Ignorance, Class, Differences

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