Prejudices Quotes

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

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.

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!

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

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.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

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.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

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.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.