Prejudice Quotes - Page 25

• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Sex, Ignorance, Race

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• Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Moving, Giving, World

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, p.64, Penguin UK

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• What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Simple, Conviction, Pure

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.

  James Bryant Conant

  Fighting, Science, Generations

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  Northrop Frye

  Block, Emotional, Thinking

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Coats

  Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.200, Routledge

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• Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

  Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

  Pride, Race, Antidote

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• You will be favourable to Burr, and so must fail because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth, Washington the greatest man that ever lived, Burr the wickedest, and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Love You, Mean

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• I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

  Wendell Willkie

  Philosophy, Race, Support

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• Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Agents, Ambassadors, Politics

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

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• I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

  John Henry Mackay

  Book, People, Want

  John Henry Mackay (2001). “John Henry Mackay: Autobiographical Writings”, p.11, Xlibris Corporation

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• The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

  Terry Eagleton

  Important, Principles, Revolution

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• I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

  Howard Barker

  Views, Political, Social

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• Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

  Sean Bean

  Character, Fighting, Class

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• Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling.

  Gwendoline Christie

  People, Challenges, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

  Linda Chavez

  White, Rights, Violence

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• Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.

  Timothy M. Dolan

  Children, Hatred, Church

  "Cardinal Dolan Responds to My Open Letter" by Carl Siciliano, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Country, Regret

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Pride, Consciousness

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• I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

  Amanda Hocking

  Nice, Rain, Book

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• I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

  Ellie Kemper

  Thinking, Comedy, Being A Woman

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

  James Boswell

  Strange, Quotations

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• You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

  Donald Kagan

  World, Firsts

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  Jack Kingston

  Military, College, Class

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• They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

  Sri Aurobindo

  God, Believe, Soul

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