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“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.”

People Ifs World Needs Feels Persons Form Love Is Mets Thousand Ten Prejudice Feel Good Need You Convenient Make You Feel Good

Author:Charles Bukowski

“D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were in charge instead of you Crosses?' 'Can't say it's ever crossed my mind,' Jack shrugs. 'I used to think about it a lot,' I sigh. 'Dreams of living in a world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field.”

“Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”

Ifs Knows Should Wells Said Would Be Order Dies Dangerous Fit Comfort Daughter Should Have Prejudice Notes Dear Illness Pursuit Your Daughter Mrs Bennet

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.”

Ifs Want Should Believe Beautiful Joy Causes Movement Demand Ideals Prejudice Release Denial Conventions Anarchism Nun

Author:Emma Goldman

“If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?”

Ifs Fiction Pride Periods Overcoming Prejudice Brilliant Novelists Credible

Author:P. D. James

“So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Trying Spirit Asks Energy Wish Challenges My Own Teach Alive Stupid Kings Higher Prejudice Generous Good Man Boundless Clumsy I Am Alive Good Kings Quick Witted

Author:Sharon Shinn

“In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way.”

Ifs Way Art Ideas Term Race Watches Laughing Awareness Jokes Prejudice Gender Critical Instance Comedian Filmmaker Etc Racist Inherent Conventional Consent

Book:Nerd Do Well

Source: Nerd Do Well

“Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Said Sometimes Problem Asks Names Bits Common Principles Needed Prejudice Miles Common Sense Ask Me

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than the other guy, or, if they did use facts, they only selected ones that reinforced their prejudices and advanced their ideas.” Oberon replies “don’t they still do that?”

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Author:Kevin Hearne

“Fear of the unknown... They are afraid of new ideas... They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on... "If something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me." What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Reality Beautiful Universe Prejudice Familiar Mysterious Rejects Frightening New Ideas Beautiful Things Loaded Fear Of The Unknown

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.”

Ifs Political Movement Empathy Prejudice Complaining Cant Political Correctness Correctness Empathetic Lack Of Empathy

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.”

“After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.”

“If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.”

Ifs Men Real Levels Environment Mankind Dog Communication Prejudice Superstitions Replaced Sensitivity Relieved Syllables

Author:Robert Breault

“We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”

Ifs Way Needs Mind Made Sometimes Speak Security Behavior Judgment Prejudice Patterns Scripture Word Of God Expecting Echoes Repent Complacency Sanctification Haughty Mind Made Up

Author:John Stott

“Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds”

Ifs Littles Whole Feelings Truth Opinion Prejudice Rational Comprehension Whole Truth

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against attempts to introduce the methods and language of mathematics into any branch of the moral sciences. Most persons appear to hold that the physical sciences form the proper sphere of mathematical method, and that the moral sciences demand some other method-I know not what.”

Ifs Knows Persons Seems Form Science Language Moral Economy Clear Demand Prejudice Mathematics Method Mathematical Branches Spheres Introducing Physical Science

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.”

“If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, "rules" and "conditions to be (hereafter) observed" in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day. [Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]”

“Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the problem is so trivial in comparison to the problems of human beings that no sensible person could give it time and attention. This too is a prejudice - for how can one know that a problem is trivial until one has taken the time to examine its extent?”

Source: Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals

“If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.”

Ifs Enough Home Fighting Prejudice Honorable

Author:Lady Gaga

“Raise your hand if you’ve spent nights crying yourself to sleep, raise your hand if you’ve felt as if you’d rather hide in bed all day than face the people that make you feel small or powerless! Raise your hand if you’ve felt as if you’d rather lie to people than tell them the truth about who you really are, because at least you wouldn’t be the victim of hateful behavior or prejudice! And raise your hand if lying feels almost as bad.”

People Ifs Feels Hands Faces Lying Night Felt Sleep Cry Bed Behavior Prejudice Raises Victim Powerless Hateful

Author:Dianna Agron

“Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.”

Ifs World Children Would Be Taught Prejudice Better Place Only Child

Author:Michael Jackson

“Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.”

Ifs Fighting Return Prejudice Suicide Indifference Bigotry Sooner Or Later

Author:Bayard Rustin

“Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It becomes infectious and no one becomes safe from the ravages of prejudice.”

Ifs Grows Attitude Groups Safe Respect Prejudice Spread Tendencies Respectful Be Respectful

Author:Walter Annenberg

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.”

Ifs Men Should May Ends Certain Parent Wise Prove Prejudice Awe Contempt Wiser

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.”

Ifs Men Kind May Littles Self Values Left Common Kindness Grace Ten Prejudice Add Merciful Uncommon Charitable

Author:Frederick William Faber

“Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is that that's the kind of country that most people want, as well, and that we all have prejudice, we all have certain suspicions or stereotypes about people who are different from us, whether it's religious or racial or ethnic, but what I think I found in the American people, I think there's a core decency there, where if they take the time, if they get the time to know individuals, then they want to judge those individuals by their character.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.”

People Ifs World Together Prejudice

Author:Josephine Baker

“If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate”

Ifs Trying Said Ideas States Whole Seems Difficult Silence Opinion Listening Prejudice Communicate Backgrounds Impulse Inclination

Book:Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967

Source: Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967

“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.”

Ifs Knows Mind Believe Enough Dream Purpose Decision Moral Comfort Limits Conscious Tasks Function Prejudice Leaving Unconscious Etc Disappointed Meaningless Betrayed Liable Conscious Mind Rebuke

Author:Carl Jung

“If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.”

Ifs Prejudice Curiosity

Author:Guo Xiang

“People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headway”

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Author:Neal Boortz

“It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”

“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.”

“Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.”

Ifs Games Sports Baseball Prejudice Stature

Author:Branch Rickey

“Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.”

Ifs Fall Tree Prejudice Forests Falling Down

Author:Chen Shui-bian

“The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's faithfulness to his prejudices. If he were a lover of truth, he would be willing at any moment to surrender his belief for a higher, better, and truer faith.”

Ifs Men May Moments Would Be Certain Belief Religious Willing He Man Lovers Higher Prejudice Surrender Coward Loyal Faithfulness Religious Belief

Book:Great truths

Source: Great truths

“Use their tactics if you feel strongly enough. Make a nuisance of yourself. Make an official complaint. Take it to a tribunal. As an atheist youre part of a minority whose beliefs are constantly ignored and marginalised while religious prejudice is pandered to and encouraged, and you have every right to be offended by that... Remember, one person on their own cant do much, but a million people each doing a little every day can change things very quickly.”

“We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.”

Ifs World Want Said Enough Fighting Practice This World Prejudice Abandon New World

Author:Gwen Bristow

“We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Looks May War Ignorance Weapons Prejudice Absence Karma Arsenal Great Power

Book:Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change

Source: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change

“Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder”

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Author:Peter Senge

“Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.”

Ifs Doe Made Reason Taken Color Prejudice Mark Inferiority Enslavement

Author:William Pickens

“What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Whole Race Mankind Prejudice Chaos Terror Punishment Barriers What If Artificial Scoundrels Crime And Punishment

Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“Horses don’t think the same as humans. Something that’s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses but what he doesn’t possess. And that is greed, spite, hate, jealousy, envy, prejudice. The horse doesn’t possess any of those things. If you think about people, the least desirable people to be around usually possess some or all of those things. And the way God made the horse, he left that out.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Humans Made Hate Left Love Is Unique Horse Prejudice Greed Envy Jealousy Spite Desirable Jealousy Envy

Author:Buck Brannaman

“If I can show that a woman can run 26 miles, and run it well -- stride for stride with the men -- that is going to throw all the rest of the prejudices and all the misconceptions and all of the so-called reasons for keeping women down that have existed for the past how many centuries? Centuries of this stuff! And so I sort of chuckled to myself and thought, 'Oh, this is going to be fun! I'm going to turn the whole thing on its head.'”

Ifs Men Wells I Can Reason Whole Shows Running Past Turns Fun Stuff Century He Man Prejudice Miles Misconception Stride

Author:Bobbi Gibb

“Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.”

People Ifs Want Feels Winning Goal Loses Race Despair Sight Prejudice Quitting Surrender Opponents Retiring Discomfort Delayed Outrun

Author:Muhammad Ali

“If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more advanced—and a racist believes that an inherent difference between each race make his or her ethnicity superior. All of these ideologies spawn the hate, philosophical disagreements, and prejudices that have been the catalysts for various atrocious acts throughout history.”

Ifs Believe Has Beens Hate Nations Differences Religious Race Cases Hell Prejudice Philosophical Various Superiors Ideology Racist Inherent Disagreement Catalyst Ethnicity Spawn

Author:David G. McAfee

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