Prejudice Quotes

• It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Opinion
  • Dead
  • Prejudice

• The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Prejudice

• The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Character
  • Support
  • Democracy

• Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Reason
  • Easy
  • Prejudice

• All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Life
  • Prejudice
  • Intolerance

• All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

  

  Josephine Baker
  • Peace
  • Prejudice
  • Brought

• I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Book
  • Pride
  • Prejudice

• How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hatred

• It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Law
  • Government

• Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Decision
  • Collaboration
  • Prejudice

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