“There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.” PeopleCenturyPrejudiceTitles21st CenturyParliament19th Century Author:Paddy Ashdown
“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.” MindIdeasFactsFeelingsFoundGivenCommonCenturyPeriodsPrejudiceTwentieth Century Book:Human Work Source: Human Work
“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.” Has BeensStatesRealityUsedWishNaturalCenturyPrejudiceAffairUsers Author:Eva Figes
“The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.” StatesFeelingsUnitedRaceLeaderUnited StatesEconomicCenturyMovementRacismUnderstoodPrejudiceSlaveryGuiltCompetitionFeministDiscriminationMotiveInsecuritySexismParallelsSimilarityNineteenth CenturyFeminist MovementAnti SlaveryGuilt FeelingsEconomic Competition Author:Ashley Montagu
“One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.” WayLooksMadePurposeNamesSinToo MuchCenturyLimitsPrejudicePracticalsReputationTriumphDistinctionProtestRighteousImmoralDrankNineteenth CenturyIndignationConnotationDeadly SinsRighteous Indignation Author:Aldous Huxley
“I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.” YearsModernCenturyPridePrejudiceDecadesUnbelievableJaneAusten Author:Julie Walters
“Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.” MenFormCultureBeliefIssuesCenturyHigherProveEqualOppositesPrejudiceMethodGuiltyFranceRealmsStatisticsAdsMeasurementIndiana Author:Richard M. Weaver
“The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.” Has BeensFactsShowsPastReligiousStudyCenturyLessonsScientistPrejudiceSkepticismNewton Book:Facing Up Source: Facing Up