Quotes About Prejudice

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

Suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god's sake would it kill you to smile.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

There's no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.