Prejudice Quotes

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Prejudice is opinion without judgement."
-Voltaire

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."
-Voltaire

"A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination."
-Betty Friedan

"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed."
-Samuel Johnson

"Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room."
-William Hazlitt

"Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic."
-Tryon Edwards

"I've lived in Europe for the better part of twenty years, and I've noticed that one of the biggest errors Europeans make is to dismiss America as having no culture. That's an incredible mistake, and whether it's born of arrogance or neurosis, it's wrong."
-John Malkovich

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility."
-Charles Caleb Colton

"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
-Lillian Hellman

"Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety."
-Ben Hecht

"Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence."
-Francis Jeffrey

"Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out."
-Sydney Smith

"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon."
-George Aiken

"Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating."
-Marian Anderson

"When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong."
-Kane O'Hara

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally."
-W. C. Fields

"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."
-Allan Bloom

"All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved."
-Casey Miller

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices."
-William James

"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts."
-E. B. White

"If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice."
-Benny Goodman

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
-H. L. Mencken

"There is a lot of racial prejudice in northwest Ohio, in this area."
-Don Barnett

"Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go."
-K. D. Lang

"I've been advised to only do people who look like geeks and do avatars that are more expressive than the human. Sometimes people want you to cater to a prejudice, which I find just dull."
-Robbie Cooper

"Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding."
-Thomas Willis

"The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it."
-Alexander Cockburn