Prejudice Quotes

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

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 there, firm as weeds among stones.

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks
Duchess de Abrantes

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norto

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

The spirit of our age is one in which the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength. It is this which is under attack. Moderates are not moderate through weakness but through strength. Now is the time to show it in defence of our common values.

Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.

No real teacher can doubt that his task is to assist his pupil to fulfill human nature against all the deforming forces of convention and prejudice.

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.







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