Prejudices Quotes

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Mark Twain

human, people

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

Prejudice never shows much reason.

I, Robot

Lawrence Robertson

mind

— My cage seems bigger than yours, but it's still a cage. If you want sympathy, you won't get it. I don't want your sympathy.
— Do you know what my daughter's nurse told her this morning? That in a girl's voice lies temptation. A known fact. Eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body. She doesn't believe her yet, but she will. She'll grow up just like her mother. She'll marry, bear children and honor her family... spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies... she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and country... because no biblical hell could ever be worse... than this state of perpetual inconsequence.

In oranges and women courage is often mistaken for insanity.

They are led by a woman. What does a woman know?

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

refusal

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Maya Angelou

racism

Meaningful Quotes

Listen, it's not a new story. White men hate black men. Muslims hate Buddhists. That's the way it goes. There's prejudice everywhere. It does no good to give it back. You have got to use your noodle.

I learnt early: those who are quickest to tally your value often do it on your spots alone.

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservation agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

William James

society

obedience

— One can't just decide to be a vintner, and then conveniently become one. There are dynasties at play.
— That isn't true in California.
— I rest my case.
— You're a snob.
— Am I?
— It limits you.

— You are a woman of the Western world. Sophisticated. Promiscuous.
— Hey!

The Beautician and the Beast

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

Burt Reynolds

quotes about myself