Best prejudice & authority Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically.”

Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of Script

“Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.”

Heart Opinion Subjects Authority Judgment Prejudice Fellows Spread Multitudes Deference

Book:Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .”

Trying Courses Cost Authority Standards Claims Prejudice Appeals Scholar Virtuous Cheat Worldly Scholarship Public Life

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“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].

“In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute.”

Source: Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery

“The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.”

“There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.”

Four Influence Ignorance Authority Prejudice Obstacles Chiefs Customs Display Submission Unworthy Grasping Concealment Ostentatious

Book:Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2

Source: Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2

“What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.”

Time Authority Prejudice Our Time

Book:The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 29: Détente or Destruction, 1955-57

Source: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 29: Détente or Destruction, 1955-57

“We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.”

People Asks Decision Results Views Accepting Perspective Authority Prejudice Election Democratic Sincerely Beijing Election Results Positive Perspective

Author:Chen Shui-bian

“By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.”

Knows Trying Age Young Courses Sex Race Virtue Ignorance Cost Authority Standards Claims Prejudice Appeals Scholar Frank Virtuous Cheat Worldly Disputes Scholarship Public Life

Author:Jacob Bronowski

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