Prejudice Quotes - Page 12

• In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

  Bertha Knight Landes

  Feminist, Overcoming, Handicaps

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• Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

  Elihu Root

  Ambition, Perfection, Selfishness

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.

  Guo Xiang

  Curiosity, Ifs

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• For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!"

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Faith, Religious, War

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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• What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

  A. W. F. Edwards

  Null, Statistics, Used

  A. W. F. Edwards (1984). “Likelihood”, p.180, CUP Archive

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• She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

  Ellen Goodman

  Statistics

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.

  Martin Luther

  Hurt, Dark, Past

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• Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Justice, Careful, Courses

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• The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

  Byron White

  Light, Risk, Serious

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• Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Motor Racing, Play, People

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• The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Selfish, Passion

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• The ground we have in common with unbelievers is not the Bible, but our common needs, hurts, and interests as human beings. You cannot start with a text expecting the unchurched to be fascinated by it. You must first capture their attention, and then move them to the truth of God's Word. By starting with a topic that interests the unchurched and then showing what the Bible says about it, you can grab their attention, disarm prejudices, and create an interest in the Bible that wasn't there before.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Moving, Topics

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• Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Home, Trying, Tasks

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• At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

  Gore Vidal

  Public Opinion, Superstitions, Chaos

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

  Steven Erikson

  Apes, Source

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• People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headway

  Neal Boortz

  Racism, People, Firsts

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• The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.

  James F. Cooper

  Passion, Humility, Men

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, Passion, Natural

  "Isolationism, Redux" by Richard Cohen, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 3, 2012.

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• You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

  Simon Mawer

  Men, Depth, Appearance

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• With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Soul, Truth Is, Ability

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• I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were in the war would believe that I had truthfully captured what they had gone through I worked in the framework that war is horrible. I want to carry on what I have tried to do in these pictures. War is a concentrated unit in the world and these things are clearly and cleanly seen. Things like race prejudice, poverty, hatred and bigotry are sprawling things in civilian life, and not so easy to define as war.

  W. Eugene Smith

  War, Believe, Race

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• There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: "Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."

  Martin Gardner

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  "Exclusive Interview with Martin Gardner". Interview with Bernard Sussman, "Southwind" (Miami-Dade Junior College), Volume 3, No. 1, Fall 1968.

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• What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Knowledge, Soul, Words Of Wisdom

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Mother (2003). “Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology”, p.184, Lotus Press

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

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Speak, Tradition, Deaf

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.282, A&C Black

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