Prejudices Quotes

Accepting evil is worse than committing evil.

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.

Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freedom, and indeed the most harmless among all the things to which this term can properly be applied. It is the freedom to make public use of one's reason at every point. But I hear on all sides, 'Do not argue!' The Officer says: 'Do not argue but drill!' The tax collector: 'Do not argue but pay!' The cleric: 'Do not argue but believe!' Only one prince in the world says, 'Argue as much as you will, and about what you will, but obey!' Everywhere there is restriction on freedom.

No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.

Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business – all these fall into the same category of psychological reinforcement. Hence, emerged the blood-sucking professions of astrology, palmistry, vastushastra, numerology etc. The very existence of these fraudulent professions is predicated on the fear and anxiety of vulnerable masses. Thus, a person’s superstitious beliefs become the tool of exploitation in the hands of ruthless fraudsters.

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.

It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others).

The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.

After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body.

It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.

Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.", 1953)

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People are unique in the inner life of the mind -- what they are in their thought-world determines how they act. This is true of their value systems and it is true of their creativity. It is true of their corporate actions, such as political decisions, and it is true of their personal lives. The results of their thought-world flow through their fingers or from their tongues into the external world.

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.

Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.

In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust.

A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.

Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person. The reason is they’re categorized as Romances, which is where they are shelved in bookstores. Though I have no justification for avoiding it, the romance section is an area in bookstores I seldom wander into. Her novels also have traditional-looking romance book covers, which are occasionally a bit off-putting to us mighty manly men. Then again, who knows? I don’t carry many biases where good storytelling is concerned. I’m willing to find it anywhere, as too many of my friends will attest, when I try to drag them to wonderful movies that they aren’t eager to go to, simply because they fall under the chick-flick rubric. So, in any case, I’m glad I did meet Marjorie Liu in person, because it would have been a shame to miss out on the work of an author this talented due to whatever degree of cultural prejudices I might still possess. I trust you who read this won’t make the same mistake.

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

No, I mean, this is a problem that most people have. A problem of the human condition. We get ahold of some kind of shorthand in understanding people, and we think it works, and we use it to assess, categorize, and then, very often, dismiss people. It's the basis for stereotyping, profiling, and several other very sorry words that end in i-n-g.

You will think you take generous views of her; but you will never begin to know through what a strange sea of feeling she passed before she accepted you. As she stood there in front of you the other day, she plunged into it. She said 'Why not?' to something which, a few hours earlier, had been inconceivable. She turned about on a thousand gathered prejudices and traditions as on a pivot, and looked where she had never looked hitherto.

Noah had transformed in my eyes, too, butt it wasn't because he had changed. It was my perception of him had changed. He'd always been the cool person I'd come to know and respect, I'd just been blinded by my prejudices.

There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.

When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

Salvation of human life requires disclosure of truth through reason, surpassing bigotry.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.

Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.

Become a human and call upon the humans in others. And in time the world shall become a real abode of peace.

Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

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.

Clarence Darrow, one of history's greatest lawyers, once noted "There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court." Perhaps because justice is a flawed concept that ultimately comes down to the decision of twelve people. People with their own experiences, prejudices, feelings about what defines right and wrong. Which is why, when the system fails us, we must go out and seek our own justice.

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

Saying it's hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it's difficult being wealthy.

If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness.

I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.

We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.