Quotes About Prejudice

aucun autre dieu n'a inspiré à ses adorateurs le mépris et la haine de ceux qui prient à de différents autels.

Peu d'hommes aiment longtemps le voyage, ce bris perpétuel de toutes les habitudes, cette secousse sans cesse donnée à tous les préjugés. Mais je travaillais à n'avoir nul préjugé et peu d'habitudes. J'appréciais la profondeur délicieuse des lits, mais aussi le contact et l'odeur de la terre nue, les inégalités de chaque segment de la circonférence du monde.

Few men enjoy prolonged travel; it disrupts all habit and endlessly jolts all prejudice. Any tolerance shown to fanatics is immediately mistaken by them for sympathy with their cause. Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one's self without thought of profit.

Mr. Teifert's practically ancient – at least forty, I'd say – and so not sexy or cute or Australian.

I have a habit of taking instant dislikes to people. Simply because it saves time.

noticed that he had small hands and, worse again, small feet. You could barely see his shoes under the cuffs of his trousers. I hated men with small hands and feet. It made them seem very unmanly, like imps or gnomes.

Not everyone likes an "ambitious" woman. When it's said about a man it's always in a good way. But a woman? Not so much.

My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter.

They saw women in the public sphere as whores, thieves, she-men with the audacity to carry guns and wear pants.

I find that the hardest work in the world—it may in fact be impossible—is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

And here is a prejudice of mine, confirmed by my lights through many years of observation. Sinners are not all dishonorable people, not by any means. But those who are dishonorable never really repent and never really reform.

Fearfulness obscures the distinction between real threat on one hand and on the other the terrors that beset those who see threat everywhere. . . . Granting the perils of the world, it is potentially a very costly indulgence to fear indiscriminately, and to try to stimulate fear in others, just for the excitement of it, or because to do so channels anxiety or loneliness or prejudice or resentment into an emotion that can seem to those who indulge it like shrewdness or courage or patriotism.

When people feel they know who to blame or to snicker at, they seldom feel the need to know more.

We would not now have a sizable part of our own population prepared to engage in homicidal violence if they truly believed that that young man in the hoodie was an image of God.

Americans' treatment of the Negro indicated a lack of religious seriousness.

You let women dictate your actions and they are not competent in this world, though certainly they will be saints in heaven while we men burn in hell.

Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.

This definition was not just limited to establishing a method for exploring the specificity of one human group in relation to another. It also desired, from the outset, to renounce the prejudiced and racist ethnography about which the West has never tired of berating itself. The intention could not have been loftier, but the well-known saying tells us that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Because

Volgens hem was de Peruaanse samenleving een broeinest van spanningen, haatgevoelens, rancune en vooroordelen, die zich in twaalf jaar militaire regering alleen maar hadden versterkt. 'Je zou je land niet meer herkennen, neef. Er hangt een dreiging in de lucht, je hebt het gevoel dat er elk moment iets heel ernstigs tot uitbarsting kan komen.

el dinero abre todas las puertas y que ni siquiera los prejuicios raciales se le resisten

Qué difícil convencer a muchos compatriotas de que todos los seres humanos eran iguales, con prescindencia del color de su piel, de la lengua que hablaban o del dios al que rezaban!

Above all, do not say anything intelligent. Gentlemen abhor intelligent women.

One man who had known Lloyd years earlier said flatly that he "hated women.

He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope.