Prejudice Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

  Jacque Fresco

  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

  Robert Peel

  Feelings, Weakness, Public Opinion

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• We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

  David Suzuki

  Support, Information, Opinion

  "What a difference 50 years makes", davidsuzuki.org, June 27, 2008.

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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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• There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

  George Santayana

  Humor, Growth, Mind

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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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• I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Learning, This Life, Wanted

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.72, Kodansha America

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• There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Men

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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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• Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Minorities

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• The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's faithfulness to his prejudices. If he were a lover of truth, he would be willing at any moment to surrender his belief for a higher, better, and truer faith.

  William George Jordan

  Religious, Men, Coward

  William George Jordan (1903). “Great truths”

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• A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

  Lord Acton

  Philosophy, Bundles, Conservatism

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• A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology.

  Medard Boss

  Talking, Ideas, Effort

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• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Heart, Winning

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• We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

  Selma James

  Weapons, Language, Used

  Selma James (1983). “The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys”, Falling Wall Pr

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• No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.

  Edward Bernays

  Wise, Believe, Ideas

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays, 1928.

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• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda...we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.

  Vicente Fox

  Years, Organization, Principles

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• Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground.  Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

  Shana Alexander

  Vanity, Hair, Self

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.

  Gwen Bristow

  Fighting, Practice, World

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• To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

  Emilie du Chatelet

  Happiness, Passion, Healthy

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• It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Passion, Men

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• Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Passion, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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