Prejudice Quotations | Page 5

Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

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

A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

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

I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake.

I have no prejudice against male or female.

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

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.

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

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

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted.

If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice

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

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.

I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.

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

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

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.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is." (The Wisdom of No Escape, p. 3)

What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.

There are those people who basically don't like those who are different. Now, that is a prejudice and it's a prejudice that's dangerous because in the world today, the world works through connectivity. It works through going across the boundaries, but faith and culture and race in a nation.

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

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

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

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

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

There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware of all that is. In this choicelessness you will be in the middle. The moment you choose, you choose some extreme. The moment you choose, you choose against something; otherwise there is no question of choice. Being in a choiceless awareness is another meaning of being in the middle.

Good managers have a bias for action.

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.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

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

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda...we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.

Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

The ground we have in common with unbelievers is not the Bible, but our common needs, hurts, and interests as human beings. You cannot start with a text expecting the unchurched to be fascinated by it. You must first capture their attention, and then move them to the truth of God's Word. By starting with a topic that interests the unchurched and then showing what the Bible says about it, you can grab their attention, disarm prejudices, and create an interest in the Bible that wasn't there before.

Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.

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.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It becomes infectious and no one becomes safe from the ravages of prejudice.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

We all are interested in an open development, without any prejudice; this refers particularly and, perhaps, primarily to the Baltic countries, for them it is more important than for Russia.

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.