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Prejudices are the props of civilization. Votes: 3

Andre Gide

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason Votes: 3

Voltaire

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason. Votes: 3

Voltaire

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. Votes: 3

Voltaire

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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. Votes: 3

Marguerite Gardiner

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Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves. Votes: 3

Comtesse Diane

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Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare. Votes: 3

Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. Votes: 3

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. Votes: 3

Ernest Dimnet

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Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. Votes: 3

Nicolas Malebranche

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Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant. Votes: 3

Lydia M. Child

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Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things. Votes: 3

Josiah Tucker

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Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. Votes: 3

Tryon Edwards

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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection. Votes: 3

Anais Nin

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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. Votes: 3

Victor Hugo

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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. Votes: 3

Samuel Richardson

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Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim. Votes: 3

Lavrenti Lopes

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It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore. Votes: 3

John Shelby Spong

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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. Votes: 3

Charlotte Bronte

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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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones. Votes: 3

Charlotte Bronte

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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. Votes: 3

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there Votes: 3

Clive James

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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. Votes: 3

Mary Astell

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There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices. Votes: 1

Ernestine Rose

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It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Votes: 1

Henry David Thoreau

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Votes: 1

Albert Einstein

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. Votes: 1

William James

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. Votes: 1

Rod Serling

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I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them. Votes: 1

Howard Barker

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I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. Votes: 1

James Hillman

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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. Votes: 1

William Hazlitt

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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. Votes: 1

Karen Armstrong

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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. Votes: 1

James F. Cooper

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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win. Votes: 1

Bear Grylls

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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. Votes: 1

Frederick the Great

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Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit. Votes: 1

Paramahansa Yogananda

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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. Votes: 1

Albert Einstein

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. Votes: 1

Jane Austen

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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. Votes: 1

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based. Votes: 1

Tyra Banks

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It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers. Votes: 1

Maya Angelou

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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. Votes: 1

Bernard Baruch

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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth. Votes: 1

Carly Fiorina

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If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that. Votes: 1

Chris Cornell

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For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just. Votes: 1

Brendan Myers

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Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor. Votes: 1

Richard Rohr

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I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate. Votes: 1

Sonia Sotomayor

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All words are prejudices. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Certain names always awake certain prejudices. Votes: 0

Philibert Joseph Roux

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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. Votes: 0

Denis Diderot

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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To lose your prejudices you must travel. Votes: 0

Marlene Dietrich

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No man can see his own prejudices ... Votes: 0

Frances Wright

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Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices Votes: 0

Bill Jay

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All prejudices are equally fatal to good government. Votes: 0

Anthony Eden

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The air is the only place free from prejudices. Votes: 0

Bessie Coleman

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I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. Votes: 0

W. C. Fields

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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices. Votes: 0

Barbara Mertz

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Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. Votes: 0

Ron Fournier

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Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices. Votes: 0

Wes Fesler

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Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices. Votes: 0

Howard G. Hendricks

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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices. Votes: 0

Bill Vaughan

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Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions. Votes: 0

Henry Allen Ironside

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Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason. Votes: 0

James Cook

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He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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I'm free of all prejudices. I hate all people equally. Votes: 0

W. C. Fields

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It is never too late to give up your prejudices Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. Votes: 0

Carlo Goldoni

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I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. Votes: 0

W. C. Fields

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When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish. Votes: 0

Muhammad Ali

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Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices. Votes: 0

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now. Votes: 0

Ione Skye

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Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society. Votes: 0

Kenneth Clark

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Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women. Votes: 0

Siri Hustvedt

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All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension. Votes: 0

Thomas Banchoff

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People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. Votes: 0

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. Votes: 0

Casey Miller

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The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices. Votes: 0

Isaac Watts

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Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. Votes: 0

Sargent Shriver

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prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ... Votes: 0

Mary Russell Mitford

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God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices. Votes: 0

Sathya Sai Baba

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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Votes: 0

Laurence J. Peter

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Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires. Votes: 0

William Feather

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My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish! Votes: 0

Dorothy Kilgallen

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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past Votes: 0

Prentice Mulford

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Advertising is about norms and values, aspirations and prejudices. It is about culture. Votes: 0

Anil Ambani

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Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. Votes: 0

William James

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Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices. Votes: 0

Knute Rockne

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Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices. Votes: 0

Dorothea Dix

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices. Votes: 0

Guo Xiang

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I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence. Votes: 0

Ashleigh Brilliant

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The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft

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A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer. Votes: 0

Bill Jay

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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. Votes: 0

Martin H. Fischer

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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices. Votes: 0

Bill Maher

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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition. Votes: 0

Baron de Montesquieu

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What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe? Votes: 0

James Branch Cabell

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Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. Votes: 0

Natalie Clifford Barney

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National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices. Votes: 0

Jane Porter

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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge. Votes: 0

Gordon Allport

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Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. Votes: 0

John Hope Franklin

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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices. Votes: 0

Arthur Symons

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What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices. Votes: 0

Tony Blair

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You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others Votes: 0

Steven Erikson

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I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles. Votes: 0

Bobbi Gibb

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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. Votes: 0

Jimmy Carter

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Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment." Votes: 0

Joseph O'Connor

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I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings. Votes: 0

Charles Lamb

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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. Votes: 0

John F. Kennedy

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Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment. Votes: 0

Joseph O'Connor

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It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen. Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities " we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. Votes: 0

John Lancaster Spalding

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Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. Votes: 0

Frank Knox

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You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live. Votes: 0

Donald Kagan

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The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. Votes: 0

Rene Descartes

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Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics. Votes: 0

John Mason Brown

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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences. Votes: 0

William Osler

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The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print. Votes: 0

Walter Cronkite

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An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices. Votes: 0

Ruth Manorama

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We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction, Votes: 0

Charles Lindbergh

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There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices. Votes: 0

Paddy Ashdown

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Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. Votes: 0

John Barton

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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. Votes: 0

Edward R. Murrow

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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor. Votes: 0

Mario Monti

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The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. Votes: 0

Alexander Hamilton

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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. Votes: 0

Baron de Montesquieu

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It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. Votes: 0

Hans-Georg Gadamer

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To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better. Votes: 0

Sir Fulke Greville

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Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. Votes: 0

Thomas Kuhn

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Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status. Votes: 0

Abigail Biddinger

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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. Votes: 0

Lord Chesterfield

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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. Votes: 0

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. Votes: 0

Philip Stanhope

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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them. Votes: 0

Suzuki Shosan

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I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South. Votes: 0

Clarice Taylor

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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. Votes: 0

Gordon Allport

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His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood. Votes: 0

Helen Keller

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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi. Votes: 0

Ferran Adria

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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. Votes: 0

Anatole France

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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. Votes: 0

Lord Acton

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. Votes: 0

Mina Loy

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It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices. Votes: 0

Roger Bacon

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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell

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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. Votes: 0

Luther Burbank

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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices. Votes: 0

Clare Boothe Luce

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When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share. Votes: 0

Celia Green

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Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices Votes: 0

Shana Alexander

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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. Votes: 0

Robert A. Heinlein

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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions. Votes: 0

Sydney J. Harris

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For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible. Votes: 0

Philip Kapleau

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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. Votes: 0

Buchi Emecheta

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All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. Votes: 0

Irving Langmuir

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them. Votes: 0

Steve Coogan

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The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits. Votes: 0

Rajeev Kurapati

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American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands. Votes: 0

Mike Huckabee

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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries. Votes: 0

Leo Tolstoy

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One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go. Votes: 0

Cher

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Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices . Votes: 0

Nicholas D. Kristof

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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so. Votes: 0

Barbara Tuchman

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I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you. Votes: 0

Leon Botstein

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There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. Votes: 0

Francis Jeffrey

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There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. Votes: 0

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations. Votes: 0

Randall Kennedy

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Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims. Votes: 0

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

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There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules. Votes: 0

Wolf Kahn

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Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths. Votes: 0

Philibert Joseph Roux

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Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences. Votes: 0

Dana Spiotta

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Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people. Votes: 0

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. Votes: 0

Denis Diderot

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I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete. Votes: 0

Epifanio de los Santos

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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. Votes: 0

Sir Fulke Greville

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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. Votes: 0

George Bancroft

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Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind. Votes: 0

Wes Nisker

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All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs. Votes: 0

Anna Julia Cooper

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The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. Votes: 0

Aleister Crowley

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Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary. Votes: 0

David Lloyd George

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They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated. Votes: 0

Hugh Sidey

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When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao. Votes: 0

Lu Jun Hong

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I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world. Votes: 0

Anna Meredith

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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true. Votes: 0

Charles Kettering

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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it. Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. Votes: 0

Marquis de Sade

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We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself. Votes: 0

Esmeralda Santiago

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We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically. Votes: 0

bell hooks

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Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality. Votes: 0

Pratibha Patil

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Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings. Votes: 0

Kenneth Clark

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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. Votes: 0

Eva Figes

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A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses them against herself. Votes: 0

Sidney Abbott

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Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. Votes: 0

Francis Jeffrey

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We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy. Votes: 0

Andre Maurois

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Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty. Votes: 0

Henry Hazlitt

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The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul. Votes: 0

Walter Lippmann

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Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. Votes: 0

David Dudley Field II

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Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates. Votes: 0

Josephine Lawrence

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People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer. Votes: 0

Hugh Hefner

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No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour. Votes: 0

Martin Jacques

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It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime. Votes: 0

Virginia Cary Hudson

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The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity. Votes: 0

Paul Eldridge

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Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had. Votes: 0

Jon Stewart

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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. Votes: 0

Joseph Conrad

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[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it. Votes: 0

John Updike

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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. Votes: 0

Walter Lippmann

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But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven by buried fears. Votes: 0

Sydney J. Harris

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Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth. Votes: 0

James Allen

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Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds. Votes: 0

William McChesney Martin

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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. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them. Votes: 0

Jack Kingston

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The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him. Votes: 0

Allen W. Wood

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Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries. Votes: 0

Carl Sagan

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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. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character. Votes: 0

Helen Keller

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For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see. Votes: 0

Eva Figes

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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions, so it can be really receptive. Votes: 0

Samael Aun Weor

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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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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. Votes: 0

Wendell Willkie

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An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world. Votes: 0

Adam Smith

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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. Votes: 0

Remy de Gourmont

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Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated. Votes: 0

Maajid Nawaz

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Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices. Votes: 0

Zac Goldsmith

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beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ... Votes: 0

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

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Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction. Votes: 0

Charles Brent

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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. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page. Votes: 0

Robert Aris Willmott

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What Donald Trump has done is to make it possible for people who had racist, sexist, and all kinds of prejudices and bigotry to put them right out there. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table Votes: 0

Christie Hefner

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953) Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course. Votes: 0

Vaclav Klaus

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Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies. Votes: 0

Olympe de Gouges

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The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft

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My intention has been to encourage viewers to face their prejudices about prostitution, sex and aging while reflecting on the complex and varied forms that love and loneliness can take. Votes: 0

Maya Goded

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Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force. Votes: 0

William C. Bryant

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Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition. Votes: 0

Stephen Jay Gould

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I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper. Votes: 0

Ken Follett

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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don't. They have prejudices. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong. Votes: 0

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, world view and thoughts. Votes: 0

Annie Proulx

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Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices. Votes: 0

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice. Votes: 0

Jennifer Stone

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Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world. Votes: 0

Dorothea Brande

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Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to the latent, darkest prejudices of Germans. Votes: 0

Richard M Perloff

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality. Votes: 0

Colin Wilson

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Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt. Votes: 0

Rosemary Mahoney

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Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science. Votes: 0

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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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. Votes: 0

Adam Weishaupt

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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. Votes: 0

Walter Lippmann

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Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice. Votes: 0

Allan Bloom

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I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices. Votes: 0

John Henry Mackay

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A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society. Votes: 0

Maria Montessori

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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. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world. Votes: 0

Alain de Botton

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Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman. Votes: 0

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield Votes: 0

Kate Bornstein

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Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the clichÃ© of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices. Votes: 0

Pedro Almodovar

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Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging. Votes: 0

Tom Paulin

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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. Votes: 0

Karl Lagerfeld

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It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him. Votes: 0

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man. Votes: 0

Mercy Otis Warren

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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera. Votes: 0

John Locke

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At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth. Votes: 0

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The "absorbent mind' welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child! Votes: 0

Maria Montessori

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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. Votes: 0

Ruth Ozeki

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From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Right now the topic of female empowerment is at the forefront of conversation and it's important we take advantage of the trend while there is added pressure to adjust long-standing beliefs, prejudices, and cultural discrimination. Votes: 0

Gillian Anderson

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What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra Votes: 0

Jose Rizal

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The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence. Votes: 0

Dorothea Brande

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Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult. Votes: 0

Maria Montessori

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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves. Votes: 0

Ouida

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Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . . Votes: 0

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.

Gwen Bristow

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Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

Augustus William Hare

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We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

Bertrand Russell

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I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

Emily Saliers

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We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.

Chuck Norris

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Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

J. K. Rowling

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I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.

Liane Holliday Willey

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The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices... A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

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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.

Karen Armstrong

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I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

Joe Wright

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It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.

Romany Malco

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Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

James Truslow Adams

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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Laurence J. Peter

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Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Edmund Burke

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Satvajaya can decondition the mind so we can see things fresh, like with the eyes of a child. Satvajaya techniques rid us of negative emotions, thought patterns, and prejudices that may weigh us down like undigested food.

David Frawley

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I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.

George Washington

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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.

William Cobbett

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I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.

Thomas Paine

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The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the West.

Erwin Schrodinger

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Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.

Mahatma Gandhi

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When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

Benjamin Franklin

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Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this.

Deepak Chopra

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You are supposed to look at the unimproved and think about the way that we dismiss so-called 'chavs' and certain immigrant classes that are considered unworthy, the "undeserving poor". Those kind of prejudices are getting worse.

Jonathan Trigell

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Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

Margaret Thatcher

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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.

Lewis Mumford

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Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.

Ernest Gellner

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Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.

Whitney Balliett

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Our prejudices :;we all have them are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.

Gerry Spence

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When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

Dean Koontz

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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.

Selma James

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There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-

Kate Chopin

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I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.

Steig Larsson

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Wherever you go, your mind will go with you. Your knowledge will go with you, your prejudices will go with you, your scriptures will go with you. Your idea that you are a Hindu or a Mohammedan will go with you. So what are you renouncing?

Rajneesh

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Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as we have seen earlier, are often built-in principles. They are the extract which the mind has made of experience.

Richard M. Weaver

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It's hard to look at anything with an objective eye. I think people bring themselves into the equation when they watch a movie. They bring their own prejudices, their own biases, their own feelings toward the subject matter, the characters.

James Ponsoldt

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Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.

David Walker

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Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.

Edmund Burke

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I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

Peter Hollingworth

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Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.

Kenny Smith

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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

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Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to know in our heart it's wrong. And we all want to remember that we are connected. And that any kind of racism is wrong.

Russell Simmons

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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.

Adam Weishaupt

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It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

George Orwell

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Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

Hans Eysenck

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I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

H. L. Mencken

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To set aside one's prejudices, one's present needs, and one's own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination.

Mervyn King

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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

T. S. Eliot

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What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others.

Beverly Engel

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The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

H. G. Wells

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Study history. Separate fears and prejudices from facts. Recognize facts from propaganda. Invest energy in fighting for what you believe in. Analyze harder where we are going and what you are doing about it. What do you really believe in? How much do we care?

Mae Brussell

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Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

Enoch Powell

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A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

Raymond Geuss

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The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.

Richard Dawkins

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A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.

Edward Gibbon

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Remember the attorney general is not a member of the president's staff. He's the attorney general of the United States. He's there to represent all of us, and it means all the laws have to be enforced fairly. And you can't bring your individual prejudices in there.

Patrick Leahy

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Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.

Arenda L. Wright Allen

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My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling.

Rakesh Sharma

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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.

Isabel Allende

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Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

Immanuel Kant

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The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ.

Rajneesh

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An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

M. Scott Peck

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The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

Kenneth Clark

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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

Samuel Johnson

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Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts...

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of âthemâ & widen the circle of âus.

Libba Bray

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Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come to understand the: he is incapable of changing them.

Vilfredo Pareto

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Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.

Bertrand Russell

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Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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.

Thomas Huxley

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Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

Henry Ford

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Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.

Friedrich Engels

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When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by human interests, desires, beliefs, notions, and prejudices, just like other people. They have neither superhuman wisdom nor extraordinary virtue.

Hans F. Sennholz

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It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.

Harry S. Truman

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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe that their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.

Lancelot Hogben

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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

Holly Black

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