Prejudice Quotations

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

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Prejudice is 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.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

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.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

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.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time - the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.