Prejudice Quotes - Page 20

• It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.

  Harry S. Truman

  Thinking, Hands, Noble

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• Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, People, Trying

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• Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Stress, Past

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• Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wish, May

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.323

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• He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

  Gore Vidal

  Kansas, Insult, Housewife

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• The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross money-getting concern: these particular aspects of a vast and voracious concentration upon profits are so many illustrations of our sinning confusion of values.

  Russell Kirk

  Christian, Illustration, Agriculture

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.140, Regnery Publishing

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• The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

  Peter Rollins

  Church, Sacred

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• A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Fields, Predictions

  "Most Likely To Succeed". www.newyorker.com. December 15, 2008.

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• It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Government, Law

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.373, Hachette UK

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• Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Disease

  Lady Gaga‏ @ladygaga, twitter.com. June 09, 2010.

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• It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Should Have, Racism, Poverty

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• Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Evil, Judging

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

  Nat King Cole

  Agency, Tvs, Advertising

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• Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart.

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Understanding, Humanity

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• What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

  Napoleon Hill

  Groups, Individual, Friction

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• Together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

  Michael Jackson

  Together We Can, Racism, World

  "Flashback: Michael Jackson's speech to Exeter City back in 2002" by Ronaldo Assis De Moreira, bleacherreport.com. June 26, 2009.

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• The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

  Barney Frank

  Reality, Antidote

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• When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

  Dale Carnegie

  Character, Pride, Vanity

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.21, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Thinking, Brave

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun,
  for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls.
  Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice,
  in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen
  and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

  Paracelsus

  Fall, Ocean, Ignorance

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• It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.

  Annie Proulx

  Views, Feelings, Stories

  "Close Range". Interview with Matthew Testa, www.cityweekly.net. June 11, 2007.

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• Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Intelligent, Civilization, People

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.109, Library of America

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• Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Echoes, Play

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• The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Humanity, Stronger, Divisiveness

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.159, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold

  Peter Singer

  Father, Distance, Views

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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