“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.” ThinkingLooksEnoughAttitudeDisciplineTruth IsPrejudiceChecksRacistGood Enough Author:Peter Hollingworth
“There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.” WayTwoHandsAttitudePrejudiceIgnorantIndifferenceBiasIndifferentAvoidedTwo WaysBias And Prejudice Author:Charles Curtis
“By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill.” PersonsMightCertainNextEffortAttitudeClearGeniusMassPrejudiceAddMinistersReachingMutualSentimentsPrimePrimitivePrime MinisterOutlookObstinateOpinionatedStandstillDeepest Fear Author:Uri Avnery
“the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.” KnowsMenWorldKindFeelingsLightChristianFormLyingInterestChristHalfAttitudePrinciplesWorstStupidPrejudicePreparedJewEducatedGreekSpokesOur WorldUsualTailsCoatsInabilityFind MeSupposingSupposing ThatIrreligion Author:George Eliot
“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices . . . . And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.” AttitudeWeaponsToolsPrejudicePityBombsZoneTwilightConquestExplosionsConfinedScapegoatTwilight ZoneFallouts Author:Rod Serling
“The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background . This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.” IfsKnowsWayDoeHardWould BeLawResultsAttitudeKnownAcceptingPrinciplesMaterialsTheoryConsequenceTestsScientistPrejudiceHistoricalTechniqueBackgroundsAbsurdMathematicalAmbiguous Book:Against Method Source: Against Method
“Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.” HandsAttitudePrejudiceBiasAvoidedBiasedBias And Prejudice Author:Charles Curtis
“How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.” IfsThinkingMeanStatesTodayLanguageVoiceTermAttitudeEarsPrejudiceBlameDefinitionsConservativeSocialismConfusionRadicalWelfareSignificancePreciseProposalCompoundsDoseReactionariesUsageWelfare StateAppraise Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” PeopleThinkingMotivationalScienceCommunityInspiringAttitudeVisionSocietyIgnorancePrejudiceParentingIntelligenceEducationalCriticalMy ThoughtsCritical ThinkingMake You ThinkTime To ThinkBumperScientific TruthThink Outside The BoxCurmudgeonThoughts And ThinkingQuestioning BeliefsRearrangingStupidity And IntelligenceJust A Thought Author:William James
“I would like to say that racial attitude and prejudice are probably here...It is very difficult to act this out - discrimination - discrimination is an act. After you have the prejudices, the disciminations come out, if there is an institution for it but the Cubans have attempted to create institutions free of discrimination.” IfsDifficultAttitudePrejudiceInstitutionsDiscriminationCuban Author:Huey Newton
“If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. ... Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning."” IfsWayShouldWellsFactsStoriesWantedLawScienceLyingOrderCoursesAttitudeCasesStudyAchieveJudgingJudgmentScientistPrejudiceCriticalAriseDataMeritReasoningWhy NotDetectivesHolmesDogmaticWithholdingDetective StoriesStory WritersFalsification Author:Anthony Standen
“Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.” PeopleWorldImportantHappensCareLawDesireIndividualWishLevelsAttitudeEnvironmentOvercomingPrejudiceInstitutionsAccessPursueHealth CareExcellentTransgenderTransAffirmativeKinship Author:Judith Butler
“I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.” PeopleWorldImportantCareDesireIndividualWishAttitudeEnvironmentOvercomingPrejudiceAgreeHealth CareExcellentTransgenderKinship Author:Judith Butler
“I think the attitude needs to be: We need to defeat Liberals, defeat them, defeat them. Not accommodate them. Not try to persuade them. If they come along of their own volition, fine. We accept them. But they are the epitome of bigotry and prejudice.” ThinkingTryingAttitudeAcceptingPrejudiceDefeatBigotry Author:Rush Limbaugh