Prejudices Quotes

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.