When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz. , that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
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.
Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.
People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice. . . they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.
In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda. . . we have to confront. . . . . what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.
I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice. . . It loves one thing only. . . truth.
Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.
Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.
Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.