Prejudice

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• When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
  • Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 484.

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• Prejudice is the reason of fools
  • Voltaire

• Prejudice is the child of ignorance
  • William Hazlitt

• When a judgment is weak, prejudice is strong
  • O'Hara

• He that never leaves his own country is full of prejudices
  • Goldini

• The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
  • Christian Nestell Bovee

• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
  • The Dalai Lama

• Prejudices are habits which have lost track of time.
  • Leonid S. Sukhorukov

• Prejudice is never easy unless it passes itself off as reason
  • William Hazlitt

• He who knows only his side of the case knows little of that
  • John Stuart Mill

• Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain
  • Aubrey De Vere

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

• All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye
  • Alexander Pope

• Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks
  • Duchess De Abrantes

• Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about — you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer — and therefore, when differences are sufficiently far reaching, we try to kill the other man rather than let him have his way. But that is perfectly consistent with admitting that, so far as appears, his grounds are just as good as ours.
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Natural Law", Collected legal papers, 1921

• The greatest prejudice that exists in the modern world, the only one almost universally accepted, is the prejudice against children.
  • Alden Loveshade

• As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.
  • Frederick Douglass

• Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
  • Terence

• To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the present, as blind as he who cannot.
  • South

• The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
  • Bancroft

• Prejudice may be considered as a continual false medium of viewing things, for prejudiced persons not only never speak well, but also never think well, of those whom they dislike, and the whole character and conduct is considered with an eye to that particular thing which offends them.
  • Butler

• Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.
  • G. D. Prentice

• Remember, when the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong.
  • Kane O'Hara

• Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.
  • Joseph Addison

• How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.
  • Madame Necker

• In my experience, people are often kinder than their ideologies, and always more complicated. Yet individual decency can dissolve when groups are mobilized against diabolized enemies, especially when they believe they're under attack.
  • Michelle Goldberg in 2006. Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. 1st ed. W. W. Norton. p. 22.