Great English Quotes and Aphorisms on prejudice by famous writers

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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON PREJUDICE

Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.

Duchess Abrantes (1784-1838, French author)

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")

All colors will agree in the dark.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855, British novelist)

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Luther Burbank (1849-1926, American horticulturist)

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

John Jay Chapman (1862-1933, American author)

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)

In the end, anti black, anti female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: antihumanism.

Shirley Chisholm (1924-, American social activist)

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Shirley Chisholm (1924-, American social activist)

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

James F. Cooper (1789-1851, American novelist)

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Quentin Crisp (1908-1999, British author)

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

William J. Durant (1885-1981, American historian, essayist)

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

Clint Eastwood (1930-, American actor, director, politician, composer, musician, producer)

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

W. C. Fields (1879-1946, American actor)

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Andre Gide (1869-1951, French author)

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices

Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793, Italian playwright)

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Remy De Gourmont (1858-1915, French novelist, philosopher, poet, playwright)

No wise man can have contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.