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A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.
I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.
What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them.
I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.
Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.
'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again.
I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
The sad truth is that millions of people with mental illness suffer stigma and prejudice, especially at work.
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.
Till this moment I never knew myself.
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.
Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
The air is the only place free from prejudices.
To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.