Prejudice Quotes - Page 17

• There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Men, Gender, Sexism

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• Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them.

  Suzuki Shosan

  People, Rejects

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• And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

  Rosamund Pike

  Smile, Fate, Pride

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• When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao.

  Lu Jun Hong

  Heart, Mind, Taoism

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• Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

  Francis Quarles

  Plato, World, Favors

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• The world of fashion. I'm interested in the world, not in fashion! But, maybe I was too quick to put down fashion. Why not look at it without prejudice? Why not examine it like any other industry, like the movies for example?

  Wim Wenders

  Fashion, Example, Looks

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• When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.

  Anderson Silva

  Kids, Training, Rolling

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• When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

  Celia Green

  Mean, People, Share

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Believe, World

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• If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more advanced—and a racist believes that an inherent difference between each race make his or her ethnicity superior. All of these ideologies spawn the hate, philosophical disagreements, and prejudices that have been the catalysts for various atrocious acts throughout history.

  David G. McAfee

  Religious, Hate, Philosophical

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Feb 17, 2015

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• Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

  Catherine Booth

  Running, Men, Soul

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• The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Views, Ideas

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

  Wes Fesler

  Men, Fairness, Rise Above

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• Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Life, Dirty, Boys

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones, hath thereupon presented the curious world with an Essay of what may be performed by such Telescopes; by which it is found, that Telescopical Tubes may be considerably shortened without prejudice to their magnifiying effect. On his invention of the catadioptrical telescope, as he communicated to the Royal Society.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Thinking, World

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• You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

  Ernst Zundel

  Fire, People, Somewhere Down The Road

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• If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

  Benny Goodman

  Music, Giving, Guy

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• IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Writing, Topics, Becoming

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.43

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• But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Philosophy, Needs, Conflict

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• I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

  Richard Thompson

  Song, Who I Am, People

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• There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

  Major Taylor

  Color, Battle, Monsters

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

  Tom C. Clark

  Trials, Television, Radio

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• In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Men, Mind

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• Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

  Kate Smith

  Opinion, Defeat, Employers

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• If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Race, Mind, May

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.339, U of Nebraska Press

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