Prejudice Quotes

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you’re prejudiced against all races.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

And the destruction of prejudice, though painful at first, because of its connection with our self-respect, gives an immense relief and a fine pride when it is successfully done.”

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you would silence me forever.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

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.

Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

I do not know whether one could not say that the obstacles to a good examination do not come so much from the fact that the mind is void of knowledge as it is full of prejudice.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.

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

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.