Prejudice Quotes - Page 31

• Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.

  Huey Long

  Religious, Long, Fool

  "Huey Long". Book by T. Harry Williams, 1969.

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• Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of "the proper channels," a way of breaking through passages blocked by tradition and prejudice. It is disruptive and troublesome, but it is a necessary disruption, a healthy troublesome.

  Howard Zinn

  Law, Healthy, Democracy

  Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.383, Seven Stories Press

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• There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Liars, School

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.687, Routledge

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• All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

  Arthur Symons

  Art, Form, Art Is

  "Silhouettes". Book by Arthur Symons, Preface to kindle ebook, 2012.

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• In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mind, Alchemist, Routine

  "The Abyss". Book by Marguerite Yourcenar, Author's note, p. 367, 1968.

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• It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly it be held. It is a greater disaster when the false prejudice bars the way to some truth behind it, which, but for it, would find an entrance to the soul; and the greatness of the disaster will in this case be measured by the importance of the excluded truth.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Greatness, Soul, Mind

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• To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.

  Georges Cuvier

  Passion, Men, Civilization

  "Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences naturelles depuis 1789, et sur leur état actuel". Book edited by Georges Cuvier (translated), 1810.

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• When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

  Desmond Tutu

  Competition, Looks, Poverty

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don't think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.

  Gene Weingarten

  Atheist, Sorry, Hate

  "Chatological Humor". The Big Fat Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.

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• Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Religious, Men, Class

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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• A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

  Charles Kettering

  Simple, Facts, Opinion

  "Dynamic Work Simplification" by W. Clements Zinck, (p. 122), 1971.

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• Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Information, Internet, Select

  "Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 2009.

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• For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Beautiful, Purple, India

  "Rauschenberg: Art and Life". Book by Mary Lynn Kotz, 1990.

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• And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mother, Discovery, Parent

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “Love Over Scotland”, p.279, Hachette UK

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• A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Country, Maturity, Fruit

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.101

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• Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.

  Brock Chisholm

  Children, Past, Thinking

  "What We Observed in Teaching General Semantics". Et cetera, 61, pp. 482-486, 2004.

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• There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

  Isak Dinesen

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices... A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Truth, Men, World

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• Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.

  Jack Levin

  Fall, Hatred, Certain

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• By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill.

  Uri Avnery

  Attitude, Effort, Add

  "My Friend, the Enemy". Book by Uri Avnery, 1986.

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• The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Country, Heart, Errors

  Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London, May 24, 1870.

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• What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute than any previous knowledge.

  Simon Singh

  Independent, Mathematical Logic, Ideas

  "Fermat's Last Theorem". Book by Simon Singh, 1997.

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• Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Giving Up, Self

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 4”, p.237, M A Center

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• At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Growth, Opinion

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• ( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

  Epifanio de los Santos

  Philosophy, Sticks, Philosopher

  "Don Pañong - Genius" by A.V.H. Hartendorp, Philippine Magazine, p. 211, September 1929.

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