Prejudice Quotes

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt)
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. View quote
W. C. Fields
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. View quote
Ezra Pound
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. View quote
Maya Angelou
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment. View quote
Voltaire
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. (Gore Vidal)
Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice. View quote
Lady Gaga
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. View quote
Coretta Scott King
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination. View quote
Betty Friedan
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. View quote
Clint Eastwood
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. View quote
Scott Adams
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. View quote
Mark Twain
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. View quote
Albert Einstein
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there. (M. Scott Peck)
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. View quote
Elihu Root
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. View quote
Christopher Lasch
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. View quote
Oliver Lodge
Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down. View quote
Francis James Grimke