“We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.” WayNeedsMayLittlesLongStatesFallHousePoliticsSexWomenHoursWhiteDecisionUnitedUnited StatesMembersPrejudiceCourtCongressSupremeBarsSensitiveWhite HouseGiftedPresidencySupreme CourtCrowdedTabooLegislatureState Legislatures Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination.” NeedsSelfInterestDecisionCompanyPracticeJourneyHonestyExerciseDirectorsIntellectualPrejudiceConstantDestinationSelf InterestIntellectual Honesty Author:Mervyn King
“Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision.” IfsMindReasonFactsGivenHeavenDecisionExistenceOpinionWeakPrejudiceSeatsShakesBoldnessHomageExistence Of GodOraclesTribunalsBlindfoldedWeak MindsUprightness Author:Thomas Jefferson
“When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.” WantPoliticalDecisionLeaderAcceptingPrejudiceProposalDon't TrustBusiness LeadersRight DecisionElectorateMake The Right Decision Author:Preston Manning
“Politicians often like to suggest that their policies come about through objective thinking, but if you look at British fascists, for example, what you see - what I see - is a group of people coming to the decisions they came to because something happened to them when they were nine-years-old, or because of some deep prejudice that formed in them subsequent to that.” PeopleThinkingDecisionPolicyPoliticianPrejudice Author:Ned Beauman
“Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.” MatterMightDecisionDesignPrejudiceArchitect Author:Martin Filler
“When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.” FactsProblemSeemsDecisionSituationOpinionHonestApproachEthicsPrejudiceSticks Author:Chester Bowles
“Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.” MenMindDoeMomentsPastCoursesDecisionVirtueHe ManReadyDutyHabitPrejudiceSeriesApplicationSteadyEmergenciesSkepticalPuzzled Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral purpose, that it warns, rebukes, comforts, foretells the future, etc. If one believes that the unconscious always knows best, one can easily be betrayed into leaving the dreams to take the necessary decisions, and is then disappointed when the dreams become more and more trivial and meaningless...The unconscious functions satisfactorily only when the conscious mind fufills its task to the very limit.” IfsKnowsMindBelieveEnoughDreamPurposeDecisionMoralComfortLimitsConsciousTasksFunctionPrejudiceLeavingUnconsciousEtcDisappointedMeaninglessBetrayedLiableConscious MindRebuke Author:Carl Jung
“Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.” BeliefDecisionViewsGroupsInformationMembersBehaviorPrejudiceBlindExtremesTerrorismSpotsAlternativesDecision MakingTrendsCollaborationMisconceptionFiltersBlind Spots Author:Cass Sunstein
“I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.” BelieveWarStatesReasonAblePastGivenDecisionUnitedUnited StatesPrejudiceIraqCommentBiasDrsRicePredeterminedPast Decisions Author:Daniel Kahikina Akaka
“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.” PeopleAsksDecisionResultsViewsAcceptingPerspectiveAuthorityPrejudiceElectionDemocraticSincerelyBeijingElection ResultsPositive Perspective Author:Chen Shui-bian
“Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.” MenMaySometimesReasonDecisionAnswersOpinionPureJudgmentPrejudiceIntuitionBigotrySuperstitionsConsensusDegenerates Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot