Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.
Till this moment I never knew myself.
That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.
Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
And happiness. . . Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one. . . What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.