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Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.
I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.
The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.
I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.
Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.
Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
I wasn't burdened by a personal history of prejudice. It's part of why I thought Barack could win.
I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias
To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.
Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.
Categorizing people economically and hating them because you think they're this way is a prejudice.
Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.
Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things.
I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.
It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.
I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.
You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.