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One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Proverb
I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Mark Twain
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
William Hazlitt
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
James Fenimore Cooper
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Eric Hoffer
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
James Baldwin
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.
J. William Fulbright, speech, to
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
Friedrich von Schiller
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Aldous Huxley
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Quentin Crisp
