Prejudice Quotes

• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Powerful, Past

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• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Use It Or Lose It, Fool

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• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sad, Education, Weed

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

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• No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.

  Thomas Paine

  Hate, Men, Knowing

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.161, Cambridge University Press

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• Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honesty, Fear, Independent

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (1934). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude”

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• If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

  George Aiken

  Morning, Race, Color

  "Personal Quotes/ Did you know?". www.imdb.com.

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• I oftentimes receive the question, "What do you think is the most important social issue to focus on?" Or, "What's the most important component of identity? Is it gay rights or race or feminism?" And I'm like, "Well, they're all intertwined. It's all one conversation at the end of the day. You can't just pick one." I mean, people experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Mean, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

  William Hazlitt

  Reason, Easy

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.90

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• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Support, Religion

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 264

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• There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Errors, Age, Aging

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.183

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Religion, Atheism, Argument

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• People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  People, Acquaintance, Nations

  PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON (1878). “MODERN FRENCHMEN”

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• There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Strong, Diversity, Social Justice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

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• Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

  Mark Twain

  Investing, Our Thoughts

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

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• Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Evidence

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  A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  William James

  Motivational, Inspiring, Attitude

  "American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.

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• In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Talking, Working Together, Overcoming

  Ralph Washington Sockman (1933). “The Unemployed Carpenter”

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• Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

  Denis Diderot

  Ignorance

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• The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

  Dorothy Allison

  Good Life, Believe, Class

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

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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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• History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

  Will Durant

  History, Guessing, Second Guessing

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• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90

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