Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
Personality is and does something. . . It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism". . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
Words can be used as a bomb or balm.
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.
Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!