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“Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.”

Reason Prejudice Assuming Cheat

Author:Josh Billings

“The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.”

Men Reason Enough Home Men And Women Prejudice Assuming Reason Why Pushing Halls

Author:Brigid Schulte

“[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior.... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.”

Mean Doe Facts School Black Willing Products Constitution Prejudice Court Assuming Mere Inferiors Violation Unconstitutional

Author:Clarence Thomas

“Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.”

Ifs Men Mind Reason Use Lost Natural Benefits Gold Prejudice Assuming Appearance Every Man Carrie Superficial Spoiled Presumption Touchstones

Book:An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].

Source: An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].

“The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to kill Muslims and Jews and cried, "God will's it." That was their battle cry. Obviously God willed no such thing. The Crusaders were simply projecting onto a deity they'd created on their own image and likeness, all their hatred and loathing of these faiths and made it endorse some of their most awful prejudices and lethal prejudices.”

People Made Happened Share Cry Battle Hatred Prejudice Assuming Jew Likes Gods Will Awful Made It Dislike Cried Deities Atrocities Loathing Likes And Dislikes Battle Cry

Author:Karen Armstrong

“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.”

People Ifs Mean Past Film Difficult Black White Quality Particular Prejudice Assuming Casts Black And White Mean People

Author:Romany Malco

“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.”

World Simple Thousand Perception Conscious Prejudice Assuming Subconscious Fallacy Imposing Actuality

Author:Colin Wilson

“Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.”

Needs Desire Hate Prejudice Assuming Mere Graves Idols Compelling Projection Love And Hate Liability Endorsing

Author:Karen Armstrong

“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.”

Believe Law Race Principles Politician Findings Decided Prejudice Assuming Sanctions Anthropology Genetics Classification Anthropologists

Author:Lancelot Hogben