Prejudice quotations

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◆ I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau99

◆ We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

- Emma Goldman99

◆ People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

- Lady Gaga99

◆ It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

- Jane Austen99

◆ As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

- Rowan Atkinson99

◆ I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

- Clint Eastwood99

◆ The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.

- Lady Gaga99

◆ Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

- Jasper Fforde99

◆ Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

- Romain Rolland99

◆ ...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

- Chris Crutcher99

◆ I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

- Thurgood Marshall99

◆ She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well?informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

- Jane Austen99