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Prejudice |
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Quotations
 | Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 11 likes |
 | The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 8 likes |
 | A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 7 likes |
 | A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 6 likes |
 | The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | Criticism is prejudice made plausible. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 5 likes |
 | To lose your prejudices, you must travel. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
 | Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 4 likes |
 | History is mostly guessing, the rest is prejudice. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 4 likes |
 | There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 3 likes |
 | Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 2 likes |
 | Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 2 likes |
 | Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 2 likes |
 | Prejudice, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 2 likes |
| Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. |
 | You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect. |
 | The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. |
| We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion. |
 | Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Men can only agree on prejudices. |
 | Prejudice does not necessarily means false ideas, but only opinions adopted before examination. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you. |
 | I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything. |
 | One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. |
Ancient Greek
 | Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Ταράττει τους ανθρώπους ου τα πράγματα, αλλά τα περί των πραγμάτων δόγματα. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 8 likes |
 | The wolf will be blamed either guilty or not guilty. Λύκος εν αιτία γίνεται καν φέρει καν μη φέρει. 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Terminate with extreme prejudice. — from the film Apocalypse Now (1979) 3 likes |
