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“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

“I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.”

Mind Doe Prejudice Glad

Book:The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales

“When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao.”

Mind Heart Desire Empty Prejudice Taoism Tao

Author:Lu Jun Hong

“The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.”

World Mind Children Made Ideas Views Opinion Particular Ready Ought Ordinary Prejudice Method Mediums Observation Strict

Book:Studies in Pessimism

Source: Studies in Pessimism

“In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.”

Men World Mind Different Beautiful This World Prejudice Superiors Distinction Barriers Inferiors

Author:Rajneesh

“If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.”

Ifs Mind May Able Race Prejudice Impulse

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.”

Mind Serious Prejudice Bias

Author:Benjamin Haydon

“Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.”

Mind Prejudice Spread Tiny Incidents Pyramids Upside Down

Author:William McChesney Martin

“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”

People Thinking Love Life Inspirational Mind God Eye Science Numbers Education Prejudice Intelligence Mediocre Minds

Author:Albert Einstein

“Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.”

Ifs Mind Heart Names Virtue Balance Reflection Deserve Accounts Prejudice Dear Arise Desirable Rise Above Endeavour

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

“We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people’s minds from those evils.”

People Mind Kids Young Hate Evil Taught Protect Racism Prejudice Filled Womb Homophobia

Author:Kerry Washington

“Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the state in its capacity of umpire is unavoidable, What must be kept in mind is that the greatest in of all is done when the umpire forgets that he too is bound by the rules, and begins to make them as between contestants in behalf of his own prejudices.”

People Mind Mean States Done Government Forget Capacity Prejudice Bounds Regulation Behalf Umpires Contestants

Author:Felix Morley

“The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.”

Mind Running Force Break Prejudice Currents Destructive Barriers Fury Unstable

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

“I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.”

Mind Believe Government Law Order I Believe Race Moral Benefits Bases Prejudice Inspired Notion Currents Equality Discrimination Benign Malicious Racial Discrimination

Author:Clarence Thomas

“I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love - that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.”

Source: My Story

“The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.”

Mind God Religion Faith Passion Hope Imagination Prejudice Mathematics Errors Charm Faith In God

Author:John Arbuthnot

“The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!”

Mind Children Wealth Accepting Poverty Habit Prejudice Countrymen

Author:Maria Montessori

“A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.”

Men Mind Dies Force Memories Situation Lord He Man Difficulty Prejudice Fortune Encounters

Book:Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan

Source: Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan

“I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.”

Source: The fight against war

“Peace begins at the end of prejudice, Mind begins at the end of malice.”

Mind Psychology Awareness Prejudice Discrimination World Peace Hate Crime

Book:Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion