Quotessence
Home / Topics / Prejudice Quotes

Prejudice Quotes

Browse 2657 quotes about Prejudice.

Related topics

PeopleMenIfsThinkingWorldMindOpinionKnowsWayHumansReasonMayPrideWantRaceBelieveIgnoranceFactsGivingIdeasChildrenKindBiasMeanShouldRacismJusticePersonsPride And Prejudice PrideFirstsBigotryCommonHas BeensDifferentHateReligiousAgeBeliefFormInterestLooksPassionStillsDiscriminationViewsDoeLawPoliticalSelfLittlesPastSocial JusticeTryingWellsCountryDiversityNeedsCharacterCultureEnoughRacial PrejudiceSeemsStatesHeartLiteratureLongProblemBookFeelsHuman BeingsPrinciplesBiasedColorMatterRealValuesYearsFeelingsJudgingJudgmentSaidBlackDifficultMadeOvercomingWarWhiteCertainErrorsEyeFightingTwoArtDoneForceGroupsResultsScienceStrongUnderstandingmore

Prejudice Quotes

“Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.”

KnowsMenSocialSexDifferencesAnswersNumbersClearEqualRespectExpectationsMen And WomenPrejudiceIrrelevantUnchangeableEqual Respect
Author:Naomi Weisstein
Create image

“My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling.”

MenInspirationalLooksDoeMadeCountryFeelingsEarthBlackChangeSpaceRichLimitsTraditionPrejudiceBoundariesFlightLimitationLife ChangingPilotsExpandingMaking ChangesAstronautVacuumsConditioningPositive ChangeSpace Flight
Author:Rakesh Sharma
Create image

“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
Create image

“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.”

IfsMenKindMayLittlesSelfValuesLeftCommonKindnessGraceTenPrejudiceAddMercifulUncommonCharitable
Author:Frederick William Faber
Create image

“How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.”

MenWantShouldHumansHeartHardCultureHuman NatureTearsFlowerDevelopmentPromiseShould HavePrejudiceClimateFruitDelightWoundsTendenciesBranchesSoilDisgustingArrestedConceitSunnyThornsBudLifelessSunny Day
Author:John Burroughs
Create image

“The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.”

MenStatesWould BeAmericaDealsModernStageProduceHugePrejudiceCrisisDemocraticChaosSocialismAbsurdRealizationOrganizedGreat MenCollectivesWarningSocialistAttemptingFranklinGreat DepressionLingeringNew Deal
Author:H. G. Wells
Create image

“For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!"”

ThinkingMenWorldBelieveHas BeensSaidWarReasonAgeLawFaithBeliefSidesReligiousKnownThis WorldGeniusHonorConflictMassMen And WomenMiraclePrejudiceSlaveryBraveMiseryIgnorantHereafterBrave Man
Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
Create image

“The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.”

MenReasonPassionCoursesHumilityPrejudiceManagementFolksCornersAppealsDeceptionGentlemanProfessorsIntrigueCunningManlySly
Author:James F. Cooper
Create image

“There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: "Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."”

PeopleMenBelieveLongHas BeensSaidLightRaceIgnoranceSucceedAreasPrejudiceNotionCommitEducatedHopefullyDestructiveAbsurdityLinkedAtrocitiesPseudoRace And ReligionShedding Light
Author:Martin Gardner
Create image

“But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.”

MenHumansPassionNationsFeltSecurityPrejudiceFoundationHumbleSufficientProvidenceRejectedDependenceNational SecurityDeliberation
Book:Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
Create image

“There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”

MenWorldLittlesDoeEnoughTodaySpiritualNationsHalfBreakPlansProduceIgnoranceCivilizationShapesToughPrejudiceLuxuryPermitWorld TodayShacklesHalf TruthSpiritual Death
Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
Create image

“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.”

IfsMenMayMomentsWould BeCertainBeliefReligiousWillingHe ManLoversHigherPrejudiceSurrenderCowardLoyalFaithfulnessReligious Belief
Book:Great truths
Create image

“It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth”

MenWorldWisdomEarthPassionInterestWonderfulFoolBenefitsPrejudiceAffairGreat MenCommerceParliamentCouncilAssemblyInconvenience
Author:Benjamin Franklin
Create image

“It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new.”

MenDoeMatterPlayHe ManLoversPrejudiceFinalsBlowTricksDiscriminationDirtyCrushResentPedantsMusic LoverCacophonyPrudes
Book:Art and common sense
Create image

“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.'”

IfsMenWellsI CanReasonWholeShowsRunningPastTurnsFunStuffCenturyHe ManPrejudiceMilesMisconceptionStride
Author:Bobbi Gibb
Create image

“Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.”

MenMayBeliefWishParticularPrejudicePossessionFavourFlatteryAttainmentSurveysQualificationsSeverityFlatterer
Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
Create image

“Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.”

MenHeartLittlesReligionLeftChurchChristianityGoneSeaHabitEmptyPrejudiceRemainsWaveWarmBeachPhrasesSandSentimentsTidesIntoleranceShellsMultitudesEgyptTheologianDoubtfulScrapCathedralsLumpsShrinesJellyHoppingTidal WavesStarfishEmpty ShellBurrowing
Author:H. G. Wells
Create image

“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
Create image

“[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.”

MenPersonsSexFreedomNumbersLibertyDoubtTalentTheoryGeniusSucceedDifficultyPrejudiceExtraordinaryObstaclesSuperiorsEncountersCustomsNeverthelessObscureSophie
Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
Create image

“At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.”

MenTwoEndsMatterLeftGivenUnderstandingWindPrideQuietMercyPrejudiceAffectionLoyaltyShipsTwo ThingsSwingsTidesEverlastingHarborsAnything And Everything
Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
Create image