Quotes about prejudice

"Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!"

Sade, Marquis De on prejudice   

"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on prejudice
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"The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way."

Shaftesbury, Lord on prejudice   

"We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home."

Sussman, Rosalyn on prejudice   

"Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts."

Unknown, Source on prejudice   

"Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on."

Unknown, Source on prejudice   

"I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago."

Unknown, Source on prejudice   

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

Unknown, Source on prejudice   

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

Voltaire on prejudice
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"We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers."

Washington, Booker T. on prejudice   

"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."

Wilde, Oscar on prejudice
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"Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right."

Anderson, Gillian on prejudice
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