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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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• All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Real, May

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

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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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• Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

  Chuck Berry

  Mad, Black History, Black

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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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• The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Men, Thinking, Psychology

  Wilhelm Wundt (2014). “Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology (Psychology Revivals)”, p.363, Routledge

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• Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder

  Peter Senge

  Fall, Learning, Knowledge

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• But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Religious, Sleep, Political

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• We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.

  Adam Weishaupt

  School, Mean, Winning

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• Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Doe, Mindfulness

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• Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education, in a broad liberal education where each student within his capacity can free himself from trammels of dogmatic prejudice and apply his educational accoutrement to besetting social and human problems.

  Harry Woodburn Chase

  Education, Lying, Men

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• There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

  Hannah Arendt

  Eye, Ill Will, Hands

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white bricklayers, and white painters will not work side by side with the blacks in the North but do it in almost every Southern State.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, White, Race

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• Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Kindness, Relax, Calling

  Albert Schweitzer (1960). “My Childhood and Youth”

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• We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

  David Boies

  Trials, Lost

  "CBS's Dickerson Questions 'Claim' That California Judge in Prop 8 Ruling Openly Gay". www.newsbusters.org. August 9, 2010.

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• On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

  Don Williams

  Children, Blood, Color

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• It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Speak, Tradition, Deaf

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.282, A&C Black

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• I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions of men dispersed by the pure principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Men, Giving

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• The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

  Gerry Spence

  Stains, Indelible

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day". Book by Gerry Spence, March 1995.

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• When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

  Gerry Spence

  Winning, Justice, May

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day". Book by Gerry Spence, March 1995.

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• Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

  Mina Loy

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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• The belief that married-couple families are superior is probably the most pervasive prejudice in the Western world.

  Judith Stacey

  Couple, Feminist, World

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• Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

  Roger Joseph Boscovich

  Philosophy, Science, Errors

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• If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Ideas, Silence, Listening

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1969). “Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral purpose, that it warns, rebukes, comforts, foretells the future, etc. If one believes that the unconscious always knows best, one can easily be betrayed into leaving the dreams to take the necessary decisions, and is then disappointed when the dreams become more and more trivial and meaningless...The unconscious functions satisfactorily only when the conscious mind fufills its task to the very limit.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Believe, Decision

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