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“Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.”

Natural Prejudice Defense Antipathy

Book:Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney

Source: Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney

“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 Beens States Reality Used Wish Natural Century Prejudice Affair Users

Author:Eva Figes

“It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.”

Different Today Faces Political Force Natural Struggle Prejudice Acknowledge Tribes Historic Greece Neighbour Turkish Political Life Serbia Facing The Truth Albanian

Author:Dimitrije Tucovic

“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.”

Humans Reason Philosophy Helping Political Natural Study Danger Succeed Demand Majors Prejudice Method Locals Bias Political Philosophy

Author:Raymond Geuss

“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.”

Knows Children Different Hate Left Natural Environment Listening Adults Abuse Prejudice Safety Tolerance Piano Nonsense Devices Traits Riding Bike Norm Gang Amused Natural Environment Armchairs

Author:Josh Lieb

“Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.”

Evil Natural Loss Easier Gains All Things Harder Prejudice Proof Bias

Author:Augustus Hare

“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.”

Mind Humans Natural Ignorance Authority Constitution Prejudice Accidents Arise Human Mind Vulgar

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.”

Knows Men Trying Children Ideas States Lost Natural Freedom Enemy Break Mankind Prejudice Proof Chains Length Odds Men Women Controversial Try Again Against All Odds

Author:John Quincy Adams