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“Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.”

History Prejudice Blindness Hostility Irrationality

Author:Anais Nin

“It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a look at all the peoples in the world, we have to realize that the condition of women is very backward and sometimes very sad, from both the social and psychological points of view.”

Ifs World Looks Sometimes Age Law Social Realizing Views Conditions Easier Prejudice Point Of View Psychological Mentality Persist Hostility Deep Down Very Sad

Author:Dacia Maraini

“The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.”

Feels Made Self Feelings Turns Concerned Dignity Prejudice Aliens Contempt Outsiders Inferiors Defects Hostility Mockery Brave New World Character Slighted

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.”

Mind Believe Doe Facts Causes Attitude Produce Ought Evidence Prejudice Favors Suits Propositions Hostility

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.”

Stills Prejudice Feminist Discrimination Destroyed Hostility Erase

Book:Life So Far: A Memoir

Source: Life So Far: A Memoir

“Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth.'”

World Should Has Beens Earth Nations Results Impossible Prejudice Instruments Expected Construction Hostility Telegraph Maverick

Author:Tom Standage

“The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get the health food industry...And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice.”

“Racism doesn't always manifest through hostility, but sometimes it manifests through being too nice out of fear.”

Fear Race Racism Prejudice Civil Rights Hostility Too Nice Special Treatment Fear Of Punishment Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations

Author:Criss Jami