Prejudices Quotes

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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.

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.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of 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 hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.

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

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

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

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

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.