Prejudice Quotes
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
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.Duchess de Abrantes
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.Francis Jeffrey
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 have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.Azel Backus
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
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
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.Bernard M. Baruch
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident - - The luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.Edward C. Banfield
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.Dale Carnegie
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.Author Unknown
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow - Mindedness.Mark Twain
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.Albert Einstein
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.Henry David Thoreau
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.William Hazlitt
