Prejudice Quotes - Page 11

• When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Selfish, Passion

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• The ground we have in common with unbelievers is not the Bible, but our common needs, hurts, and interests as human beings. You cannot start with a text expecting the unchurched to be fascinated by it. You must first capture their attention, and then move them to the truth of God's Word. By starting with a topic that interests the unchurched and then showing what the Bible says about it, you can grab their attention, disarm prejudices, and create an interest in the Bible that wasn't there before.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Moving, Topics

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• At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

  Gore Vidal

  Public Opinion, Superstitions, Chaos

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

  Simon Mawer

  Men, Depth, Appearance

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• With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Soul, Truth Is, Ability

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• There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: "Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."

  Martin Gardner

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  "Exclusive Interview with Martin Gardner". Interview with Bernard Sussman, "Southwind" (Miami-Dade Junior College), Volume 3, No. 1, Fall 1968.

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• What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Knowledge, Soul, Words Of Wisdom

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Mother (2003). “Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology”, p.184, Lotus Press

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• We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Religious, Zero, Islamic

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• But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

  Franklin Pierce

  Passion, Humble, Men

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

  James Burnham

  Emotional, Glowing, Color

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• Satvajaya can decondition the mind so we can see things fresh, like with the eyes of a child. Satvajaya techniques rid us of negative emotions, thought patterns, and prejudices that may weigh us down like undigested food.

  David Frawley

  Children, Eye, Medicine

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• It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

  Edward Bernays

  Country, Government, Ideas

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• Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Perfect, Inspire

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• Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Love, Heart, Eye

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• The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.

  Richard van der Riet Woolley

  Future, Believe, Space

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• Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

  Pratibha Patil

  Distance, Goal, Long

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

  Hideki Tojo

  Japan, America, Inability

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• The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime social necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race the antidote for prejudice. History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset.

  Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

  Country, Pride, Past

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• Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.

  David Walker

  Winning, Self, Challenges

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• Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Rags, Enmity, Resentment

  Joseph O'Connor, Random House UK (2004). “Star of the Sea”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

  Bess Truman

  Opportunity, Race, Action

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• We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.

  Otto Frank

  Believe, Mean, Responsibility

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• All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Education, Math, Dimensions

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• There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Running, Fields, Causes

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• Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Would Be, Priesthood, Misogyny

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