Prejudice Quotes - Page 6

• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

  E. B. White

  Time, Facts, Opinion

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• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.123

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• Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

  John Mason Brown

  Witty, Passion, Political

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• The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.

  Isaac Watts

  Passion, Eye, Men

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• There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

  Wendell Phillips

  Crazy, Destiny, Europe

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.51

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• They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Understanding, Firsts, Belief

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• Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Order, Boundaries, Delightful

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• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  H. L. Mencken

  Literature, World, May

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.

  P. C. Cast

  Overcoming, Logical, Knows

  P.C. Cast (2010). “Brighid's Quest”, p.351, Harlequin

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• Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love Is, Form

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• It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Vices, Murderer

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

  W. C. Fields

  Hate, Comedy, Hilarious Short

  Quoted in Saturday Review, 28 Jan. 1967

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• Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Children, Ignorance

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.83

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

  Robert Byrd

  Patriotic, Fighting, Race

  "An Unlikely Friendship: President Obama and Senator Byrd" by Eve Zibel, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2010.

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• Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

  Abraham Coles

  Ignorance, Eye, Dust

  Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

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• The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, White Privilege, Racism

  "Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama". Interview with Mike Stivers, www.truth-out.org. April 24, 2013.

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• We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

  Evelyn Boyd Granville

  Inspiring, Education, Mean

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• To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

  Brock Chisholm

  Family, Loyalty, Religious

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• Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

  Sigmund Freud

  Humanity, Religion, Atheism

  Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

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• We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  People, Discrimination, Disgrace

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  I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

  Clint Eastwood

  Men, Facts, Extremes

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• As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.

  Frederick Douglass

  Hate, Believe, Quality

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.649, Chicago Review Press

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• There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Past, Men, Miracle

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.63

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• Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

  Isaac Watts

  Believe, Men, Parent

  Isaac Watts (1806). “Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences”, p.174

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