Narrow-minded Quotes - Page 4

• As our planet takes action to cast out its manmade poisons and heal its man-caused wounds, many human inhabitants will no doubt give way to fear. Many will cling to seemingly powerful we're-God's-chosen-people religions, hoping that by so doing they will be saved from the wrath of a Vengeful God (not recognizing that the approaching "vengeance" will in reality be man's own actions coming back at him - and not recognizing that the Infinite Universal Power is far more than the narrow-minded gatekeeper of an exclusive Spiritual Country Club).

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Country, Powerful

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• The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Heart, Ideas

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• We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Thinking, Play, Records

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Hands, Understanding, Guardian

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

  Marianne Williamson

  Men, Vote, Enlightened

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that’s exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it’s awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

  David Icke

  People, Awakening, Awareness

  "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

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• We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.

  George A. Smith

  Men, Race, Air

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• I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.

  John Newman

  Leeds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are helping our Somali brothers get rid of these narrow-minded attackers. The Somali people do not support the extremists, they are on the side of our soldiers.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Brother, People, Support

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

  Winston Churchill

  Stupid, People, May

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• It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Real, Names, People

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• Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

  Dov Davidoff

  Opportunity, Class, Cities

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• Reporting the consensus about climate change ... is not synonymous with good science reporting. The BBC is at an important point. It has been narrow minded about climate change for many years and they have become at the very least a cliché and at worst lampooned as being predictable and biased by a public that doesn't believe them anymore.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Believe, Years, Important

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• There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

  Tony Blair

  Children, Views, Numbers

  "Tony Blair Works To Define The Problem Of Islamist Extremism". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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• I think we can be very narrow-minded in this country; you see something that someone's done and immediately want them to do the same thing again - but if they don't, they're criticised for not doing the same thing again, but if they do they're just repeating themselves.

  Andy Serkis

  Country, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  White, Looks, Fiction

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Done With You, May, Vain

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Effort, Way, Conscious

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Dark, People, Mind

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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• Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.

  Edward Abbey

  Fate, Pigs, Utah

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches.... I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Strong, Philosophy

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• England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Running, Insulting, Racist

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• Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity. No primitive tribe worshipping with its witch-doctor was ever more vicious in its hatred and suppression of heretics than today's Marxist intellectuals, anti-racists and liberals.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Hate, Pride, Doctors

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• Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.

  Daniel Dennett

  Team, Intelligent, Ignorant

  "Brainstorms". Book by Daniel Dennett (p. 173), 1978.

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• A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Generosity, Forests

  Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile”, p.20

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