Prejudice Quotes - Page 36

• Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.20, New World Library

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

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• The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Laughing, Enemy

  marquis de Sade, Richard Seaver (1999). “Letters from Prison”, p.327, Arcade Publishing

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• All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Eye, Yellow

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• The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Bias And Prejudice, Safety

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.108, Rowman & Littlefield

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  The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Ku Klux Klan, Cost, Too Much

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• A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

  Robert Emmet

  Memories, Men, Mind

  Charles Phillips, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Robert Emmet (1840). “Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan”, p.365

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• it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

  Jane Austen

  Littles, Vexation, Defects

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.18

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• Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

  Jerry Reinsdorf

  Sports, Our Society, Discrimination

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• Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Style, Expansion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Return, Forks

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• We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Struggle, Tyrants, Age

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• Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

  Isabella Bird

  Appreciation, Travel, Home

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

  Martha Griffiths

  Justice, Different, World

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• Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.

  Norm MacDonald

  Strong, Reason, Weak

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• Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, People, Violence

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• Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Giving, Political, Would Be

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.5

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• Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Art, Caricatures

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title

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• Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Passion, Character, Interest

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• It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Pride, Men, Dust

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• The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Thoughtful, Errors, Long

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• [T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior.... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

  Clarence Thomas

  School, Mean, Black

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• The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Believe, Ignorance, Thinking

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.244

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• We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hero, Madmen

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.76, Wildside Press LLC

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• Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Law, Errors, Justice

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.91

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