Prejudice quotes

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◆ Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

- Jane Austen100

◆ In a certain way we are all the same. Our defects and our qualities are what make us different from one another, and the prejudices and preconceptions are what distance us from the perception of this obvious and undeniable reality.

- Jean-Paul Malfatti100

◆ The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

- Frederick The Great99

◆ The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

- Clint Eastwood99

◆ Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

- Martin Luther King Jr99

◆ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Prejudice is the reason of fools

- Voltaire99

◆ I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

- W C Fields99

◆ Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo

- Ambrose Bierce99

◆ Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

- Voltaire99

◆ Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

- William Pickens99

◆ The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

- Aristotle99

◆ Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

- Martin H Fischer99

◆ The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

- Frederick The99