Prejudice Quotes - Page 4

• Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

  Marian Anderson

  Hate, Hair, Sometimes

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• I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Old Friends, Nerves

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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• I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.

  Gary Lineker

  People, Needs, Break

  "Gary Lineker: I won't let abusive messages drive me off Twitter" by Paul Byrne, www.mirror.co.uk. February 14, 2012.

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• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

  Quentin Crisp

  Freedom, Blessing, Simple

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• Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

  William Hazlitt

  Able, Way, Rooms

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.98

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• You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Silence, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.458, Wordsworth Editions

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• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Parent

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.55

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• Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Past, Age, Peculiar

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• The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

  David Duchovny

  Trust, Keys, Expectations

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• What are men to rocks and mountains?

  Jane Austen

  Men, Rocks, Mrs Bennet

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.27.

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• It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

  Roger Bacon

  Men, House, Easier

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• Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

  Wayne Dyer

  Lying, Judging, Racism

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• Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

  Mary Browne

  Motivational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Use their tactics if you feel strongly enough. Make a nuisance of yourself. Make an official complaint. Take it to a tribunal. As an atheist youre part of a minority whose beliefs are constantly ignored and marginalised while religious prejudice is pandered to and encouraged, and you have every right to be offended by that... Remember, one person on their own cant do much, but a million people each doing a little every day can change things very quickly.

  Pat Condell

  Religious, Atheist, People

  "Laughing religion off the planet with Pat Condell". Interview with Dave McKeegan, freethinker.co.uk. February 27, 2008.

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• It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

  John Jay Chapman

  Enemy, Reform, Buying

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Men, Ideas, Logic

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• He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

  Tryon Edwards

  Truth, Errors, Evil

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 438), 1891.

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• Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

  Josh Billings

  Assuming, Reason, Cheat

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• When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.

  Madame de Stael

  Needs, Virtue

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 484, 1895.

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• Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Thinking, Effort

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 58, 1799.

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• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, Diversity, Support

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

  Will Durant

  Men, Land, May

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

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• National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

  Jane Porter

  Illiterate, Antipathy

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.112

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• Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

  George D. Prentice

  Twins

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