“The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.” PartyTeachingWorstEffectsPrejudiceRegardTendenciesUnworthyOpposing Author:Dorothea Brande
“Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.” MotherSufferingRaceEffectsTruth IsPrejudiceProfoundReachingMinoritiesContestsMothers DaySentimentalityStrippingStripping AwayBest American Book:Of Men and Women Source: Of Men and Women
“In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.” ArtPhilosophySeemsEyeLastsGivenPracticeCasesEffectsPositionSkillsPrejudicePhilosophicalFingersComplexesShoesConvincedCraftsNeverthelessCompetenceLeatherProgrammesPrevailing Book:Phenomenology of Spirit Source: Phenomenology of Spirit
“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.” TryingReasonActionSchoolMotivationEffectsBalanceAchievementHigh SchoolConceptsBuiltTestsPrejudiceAcceptedScoreStatisticsAcademicTestingAffirmative ActionYaleAffirmativeClassmatesPrincetonTest ScoresAcademic Achievement Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.” FeelsCultureEvilRaceEffectsGoes OnDiversityShadowPrejudiceSocial JusticeGood Against Evil Author:Pearl S. Buck
“You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct. "She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.” MomentsReadingPleasureEffectsPrideDrugOffersConversationPrejudiceShameCastsSatRemarkableQuantityDevotedConventionalModestRestraintSofasHandbags Author:Sarah Caudwell
“A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.” PeopleMayIdeasGovernmentPurposeChallengesLibertyConditionsEffectsAcceptanceSpeechFunctionPrejudiceProfoundStrikesInvitesFree SpeechDisputesDissatisfactionProvocativeUnrestPreconceptionsSystems Of Government Author:William O. Douglas
“It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.” FactsFreedomSimpleResultsEffectsBlessingEnlightenmentPrejudiceConstantToleranceStatementsBoredomRepetitionLiberating Author:Quentin Crisp
“Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.” PeopleTruthEvilSidesHalfEffectsQuietConflictPrejudiceErrorsViolentCeaseFalsehoodBoth SidesExaggeratedSuppressionFormidable Book:On Liberty Source: On Liberty
“Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.” IfsHumansLawValuesHateCultureNatureBornNaturalLearningEnvironmentSubjectsEffectsBehaviorHatredPrejudiceEnvironmentalGreedPatternsRepeatsBigotryPhenomenonCustomsHuman BehaviorAlteredSimilarityNatural PhenomenaLearned BehaviorBehavior Patterns Author:Jacque Fresco
“This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones, hath thereupon presented the curious world with an Essay of what may be performed by such Telescopes; by which it is found, that Telescopical Tubes may be considerably shortened without prejudice to their magnifiying effect. On his invention of the catadioptrical telescope, as he communicated to the Royal Society.” ThinkingWorldMayLastsScienceFoundGivenCausesEffectsAccountsPrejudiceInventionCuriousExcellentMathematicianRoyalEssaysReflectingTubesTransactionsTelescopesFebruary Author:Isaac Newton
“The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.” PersonsProblemEffectsPrejudiceCamerasAnalysisConsiderationReportersCourtroom Author:Lance Ito