Prejudice Quotes
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.George Aiken
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.Johann Georg Zimmermann
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.William James
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.Mark Twain
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.H. L. Mencken
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.Charlotte Bronte
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.Laurence J. Pete
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.Charles Caleb Colton
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.Charles Caleb Colton
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.Edward R. Murrow
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.Henry Louis Mencken
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.Albert Einstein
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - Just recognize them.Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31, 1955
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.Samuel Johnson
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re - Arranging their prejudices.William James
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.Henry David Thoreau
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.Thomas Jefferson
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.Mark Twain
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.Voltaire
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
Prejudice is ignorance.Michael Jackson
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.Sydney Smith
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.Francis Jeffrey
