Quotes on Prejudice

Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people’s minds from those evils.

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.

It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.