P Quotes
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“Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“Prejudice is by definition unreasonable and illogical. A reasoned dislike or a logical objection is not a prejudice, although false reasoning and pseudo logic are often found in the service of prejudice. Prejudice is invariably a symptom of a character defect, but tragically it is one that is shared in some degree by us all. Race, national and cultural prejudice is being recognized by thinking men as the great evil which as brought us to the brink of destruction. Prejudice which finds its focus in the accents,manners and styles of others is passed off as comparatively innocuous, but even this brand of prejudice does more to divide men than does any real differences in ideals and aspirations.”
Source: Stalking the Wild Asparagus
“Prejudice is committed easiest when it is by you against others but not the converse
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“Prejudice is grounded on sentiments, that's where reason must intervene, and coldness is grounded on logic, that's where warmth must prevail.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Prejudice is hate submerged in ignorance”
“Prejudice is ignorance.”
“Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?”
“Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.”
Source: Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches
“Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
“Prejudice is not a symptom of stupidity. Nor is it a symptom of evil. It is merely a symptom of ignorance.”
Source: Black In America: Essays & Poems about Racism in America. Includes: Why We Say Black Lives Matter, The Murders of Breonna Taylor & George Floyd
“Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.”
Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“Prejudice is not piety, no matter the lies laced with wine. Dismantling of prejudice is the dawning of divine.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.”
Source: THE
“Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.”
Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.”
“Prejudice is opinion without judgement.”
“Prejudice is plunder,
Biases are blunder.
Hate wreaks havoc,
when hearts are asunder.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Prejudice is sense of the caves, reason is sense of civilization.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.”
“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
“Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"”
“Prejudice is the prelude to war, assimilation is the cure.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Prejudice is the root of all persecution.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!”
Source: Juliette
“Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.”
“Prejudice is utter unpiety.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.”
“Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.”
Source: And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
“Prejudice marks a mental landmine.”
Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender
“Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“Prejudice, persecution, and privilege are always in a constant state of context.”
“Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.”
“Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.”
“Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.”
“Prejudice takes away space for understanding.”
“Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.”
“Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.”
“prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.”
Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.”
Source: Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings
“Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.”
Source: Life and Writings of Thomas Paine: Containing a Biography by Thomas Clio Rickman and Appreciations by Leslie Stephen, Lord Erskine, Paul Desjardins, Robert G. Ingersoll, Elbert Hubbard and Marilla M. Ricker
“Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.”
“Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.”
“Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.”
“Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.”
“Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.”
Source: Dialogues on Metaphysics
“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“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.”
“Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.”
Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
“Prejudices are the props of civilization.”
Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel