Prejudice Quotes - Page 24

• The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Ideas, Intellectual

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mark, Landmines

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.186, Open Road Media

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• Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

  Langston Hughes

  White, Black, Would Be

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.19, Hill and Wang

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• By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.

  Booker T. Washington

  School, College, Progress

  Booker T. Washington (2014). “An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work”, p.100, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Law, Public Opinion

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.475

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• Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

  Sigmund Freud

  Differences, Groups, Fundamentals

  Moses and Monotheism ch. 3, pt. 1 (1938)

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• Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

  James Fallows

  People, Messages, Failing

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• But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Christian, Religious, Mean

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• In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

  Michael Crichton

  Dark, People, Age

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Names, Common Sense

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• Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Taught, Youth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.355, Diversion Books

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• There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Men, Long, May

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• When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Running, Risk, Auditors

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• It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

  Wendell Willkie

  Thinking, Essentials, Cry

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• Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Believe, Men

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Believe, Passion, Fuel

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pay, Tribute, Persecution

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• Acquaintance softens prejudice.

  Aesop

  Acquaintance

  Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.146

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• It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, Doe, Persecution

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• Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

  Jacques Barzun

  Substance, Weapons, Argument

  Jacques Barzun (1954). “Teacher in America”

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• In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

  Edmund Burke

  Grove, Ends, Gallows

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 115.

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• You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

  John Fowles

  Knowing, United States, Worst

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

  Hosea Ballou

  Religious, Doubt, Done

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• Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.

  William O. Douglas

  Attitude, Creativity, Men

  "Points of Rebellion". Book by William O. Douglas, 1970.

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• Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

  Denis Diderot

  Philosophy, Passion, Doe

  Denis Diderot (1994). “Selected writings on art and literature”, Penguin Group USA

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