Quotes About Prejudice

Comparisons are odious.

Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents. --Cousin Jasper

From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.' 'I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

The prejudice of [research] training is always a certain 'trained incapacity': The more we know about how to do something, the harder it is to learn how to do it differently

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

You'll notice a blond person is expected to talk. If a blond girl doesn't talk we call her a 'doll'; if a light-haired man is silent he's considered stupid. Yet the world is full of 'dark silent men' and 'languorous brunettes' who haven't a brain in their heads, but somehow are never accused of the dearth.

there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race

Anthony Patch had ceased to be an individual of mental adventure, of curiosity, and had become an individual of bias and prejudice, with a longing to be emotionally undisturbed.

U mojim mla?im i tanko?udnim godinama otac mi je dao savjet na koji se u mislima ?esto vra?am. -Kad god osjetiš želju da nekoga osudiš - kazao mi je - sjeti se samo toga da nisu svi ljudi na svijetu imali onih prednosti koje si ti imao.

Anthony Patch had ceased to be an individual of mental adventure, of curiosity, and had become an individual of bias and prejudice, with a longing to be emotionally undisturbed. This gradual change had taken place through the past several years, accelerated by succession of anxieties preying on his mind.

Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.

Parfait, ai-je dit, je suis contente que ce soit une fille. J'espère qu'elle sera idiote. Pour une fille, c'est la meilleure place à tenir sur terre — celle d'une ravissante petite idiote.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Physical difference frightens people in our culture more than anything else. You can be aberrant as hell mentally, politically, socially, but do one little thing physically - put a bone in your nose - and boy, you're in trouble!

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

you just don't know how bad it feels to have people who don't even know you hate you, and for something you had nothing to do with.

Später werden ihr die Leute sagen, sie soll nicht mit Zigeunern spielen, so wie sie ihr sagen, sie solle nicht alleine trampen, oder sich das Gesicht von einem Hund ablecken lassen, aber sie achtet sowieso nicht besonders darauf, was ihr die Leute sagen.

As principais personalidades de Tupã pedem ao governo: campo de concentração e pena de morte para os japoneses.

Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

No," he said. Then he drew breath and said, "You got a nice place here. It's a nice part of the country. I'm sorry if I've give you a lot of trouble getting sick. It was my fault trying to be friendly with that nigger." And I'm a damned liar besides, he said to himself to kill the outrageous taste such a statement made in his mouth.