Prejudice Quotes

Prejudice is the reason of fools

Voltaire

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment

Albert Einstein

He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own.

Neil Gaiman

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Voltaire, Charles Darwin, Gandhi, the US Founding Fathers, Martin Luther King, Jr. et. al.

Don Mashak

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

Edward R. Murrow

Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

E. M. Cioran

Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.

Duchess Abrantes

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand

Rabindranath Tagore

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

Neil Gaiman

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.

Walter Lippmann

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment

Voltaire

Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Ambrose Bierce

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo

Ambrose Bierce

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Clint Eastwood