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• I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, ‘Look, that sort of attitude isn’t good enough.’ It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Check, Prejudices

• Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating ‘Lincoln the myth.’ He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man’s president.

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prejudices, Slaves

• The much vaunted male logic isn’t logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

  Eva Figes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Logic, Prejudices

• I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prejudices, Mind

• I’m the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I’m a victim again. A result.

  James Hillman

  Tags in Upbringing, Gender, Prejudices

• I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

  Sydney Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prejudices

• Some one has said that most of us don’t think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

  Frank Knox

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Prejudices

• Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mechanical, Instincts, Prejudices

• Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

  William Hazlitt

  Tags in Prejudices, Perversion

• 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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Prejudices, Discovery

• From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Metaphysical, Passions, Prejudices

• There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

  Rod Serling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prejudices, Simply, Destroy

• Prejudices save time.

  Robert Byrne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Prejudices, Save

• I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

  W. C. Fields

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Am, Equally, Free, Prejudices, Hate, Every