Best prejudice & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.”

Persons Ideas Reality Language Logic Prejudice Confusion Certainty Mathematical Uncertainty Reasoning Ontology Exact Sciences

Book:Political Economy

Source: Political Economy

“America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.”

Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including

“Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.”

Mind Language Quality Prejudice Manners Openness Flexibility Gracious Propriety Lucidity Clearness Athenians Stiffness

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.”

Language Prejudice Ugly Charming Gross Africanism

Author:Alice Childress

“Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.”

Knows Country Language Parent Prejudice Hardship Grandparent

Author:Hank Johnson

“I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it's not on your side or against you. It's an invitation into the onward flow.”

Trying Matter Political Language Sides Discipline Tradition Flow Rivers Prejudice No Matter What Prisoner Discourse Persuasion Invitations Your Side Good Poetry

Author:David Whyte

“It's not an easy option. The essence of travel is letting go of habit and prejudice and relishing the unfamiliar. Food you've never eaten before, a language you've never spoken before, religion that mystifies, customs that confuse, politics that perplex, all question everyday assumptions about how you live your life.”

Language Easy Habit Letting Go Essence Prejudice Everyday Assumption Customs Live Your Life Unfamiliar

Author:Michael Palin

“How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.”

“There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up.”

“I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.”

Character Language Novel Pride Prejudice Dialogue Character Development

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.”

Knows Way Passion Speak Language Understanding Interest Secret Liberty Principles Know How Impossible Prejudice Possession Confusion Introducing

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“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

“Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.”

Ends Humanity Language Views Diversity Prejudice Selfishness Welfare Consideration Brotherhood Nationality Unity In Diversity Pragmatism

Author:John Amos Comenius

“Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.”

Writing Language Prejudice

Book:The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing

Source: The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing

“We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.”

Used Language Needed Weapons Prejudice

Book:The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys

Source: The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys

“Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.”

People Left Language Common Ordinary Tradition Prejudice Ordinary People Converses Common Language

Author:Christopher Lasch

“I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language.”

Culture Language Differences Race Overcoming Prejudice

Author:James E. Faust

“WONDERLAND It is a person's unquenchable thirst for wonder That sets them on their initial quest for truth. The more doors you open, the smaller you become. The more places you see and the more people you meet, The greater your curiosity grows. The greater your curiosity, the more you will wander. The more you wander, the greater the wonder. The more you quench your thirst for wonder, The more you drink from the cup of life. The more you see and experience, the closer to truth you become. The more languages you learn, the more truths you can unravel. And the more countries you travel, the greater your understanding. And the greater your understanding, the less you see differences. And the more knowledge you gain, the wider your perspective, And the wider your perspective, the lesser your ignorance. Hence, the more wisdom you gain, the smaller you feel. And the smaller you feel, the greater you become. The more you see, the more you love -- The more you love, the less walls you see. The more doors you are willing to open, The less close-minded you will be. The more open-minded you are, The more open your heart. And the more open your heart, The more you will be able to Send and receive -- Truth and TRUE Unconditional LOVE.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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