Prejudice Quotes - Page 39

• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  Fidel Castro

  Thinking, People, Community

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• Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Country, Goal, Priorities

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a look at all the peoples in the world, we have to realize that the condition of women is very backward and sometimes very sad, from both the social and psychological points of view.

  Dacia Maraini

  Views, Law, Age

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices.

  Luis Valdez

  Ignorance, Eye, California

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Ignorance, Done, World

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

  M. Scott Peck

  Giving Up, Shoes, Discipline

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• The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.

  John Quincy Adams

  Freedom, Children, Men

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• Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.

  Ben Bova

  Being Yourself, Law, Space

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• Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Blind Spots, Faithful

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• Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

  James Allen

  Yoga, Self, Meditation

  James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

  John Wesley

  Passion, Names, World

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: Tracts and letters on various subjects”, p.400

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• A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

  John Adams

  Passion, Errors, Enthusiasm

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

  Voltaire

  Book, Beer, Judgement

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• But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at the desk a writer must try to be free of prejudice, meanness of spirit, pettiness, and hatred; strive to be a better human being than the writer normally is, and to do this through concentration on a single word, and then another, and another. This is splendid work, as worthy and demanding as any, and the will and resilience to do it are good for the writer's soul.

  Andre Dubus

  Book, Writing, Hatred

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• Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.

  Craig Thompson

  Fun, Thinking, Cowboy

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• Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

  Christopher Morley

  Truth, Facts, Ricochet

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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• Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

  Ryan White

  School, Stills

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• I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Gender Bias, Literature

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• Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades.

  John Byrne

  Cute, Dark, Hair

  "John Byrne Explains Why 'Racebending' Doesn't Help The Fantastic Four Reboot" by ComicBookMovie.com, June 21, 2014.

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• Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

  Charles Curtis

  Attitude, Hands, Bias And Prejudice

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• Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

  George Ball

  Middle East, Problem, Bias

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• Me can't be prejudice. Me can't me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you can't be righteous.

  Bob Marley

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

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• God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

  William Ellery Channing

  Virtue, Unkindness

  William Ellery Channing (1836). “A discourse on same of the distinguishing opinions of Unitarians, delivered at Baltimore in 1819. ...”, p.4

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• Even as considering African-Americans, immigrants and other groups who may be marginalized in different ways, American Muslims are still one of the most marginalized groups. Overt prejudice is probably more acceptable toward American Muslims than any other single group in the U.S. There is still a lot of policies in place that are incredibly effective that don't show any signs of eroding. So, I don't want to overstate the optimism but I think things are headed gradually in the right direction. Just because of the distance between us and 9/11.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Distance, Thinking, Optimism

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• The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Bias And Prejudice, Safety

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.108, Rowman & Littlefield

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