Prejudice Quotes - Page 33

• The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

  Ouida

  Art, Thinking, People

  Ouida (1881). “Friendship, a Story”

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• willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

  Anais Nin

  Protection, Weak, Openness

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• Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Stupid, Common Sense, Belief

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.284

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• To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

  Rose Macaulay

  Thinking, Empty Mind, Privilege

  Rose Macaulay (1922). “Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings”

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• Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

  William C. Bryant

  Mean, Self, Unhappy

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• Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

  Anais Nin

  History, Blindness, Irrationality

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• I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Power, People

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• Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Noblemen, Towns, Chance

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1860). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.198

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• Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Opinion, Judgment

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.258

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• Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, House, Peers

  1927 Speech, Cambridge.

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• To lose your prejudices you must travel.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Travel, Loses

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Names, People, Way

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Defense, Natural, Antipathy

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.98, NYU Press

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• The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.

  Helen Keller

  Character, Support, Democracy

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• What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Thinking, Majority, Mankind

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• it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Mistake, Twilight, Sight

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.129, Vanderbilt University Press

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• I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Law, Firsts, Journalism

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Men, Virtue

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• We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Thinking, Opinion

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.145

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• I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Thinking, House

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• Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Cat, Adults

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

  Simone Weil

  Fighting, Missions

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.55, Psychology Press

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• There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Knowledge, Two, People

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.667, Library of America

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• Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

  Sara Coleridge

  Religious, Flames, Fire

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.260

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