Quotes About Prejudice

These are some of my behavioral problems... P) Hating France

It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

If this was what vegetarianism meant in most of the places that practice it in the West, I'd be at least half as much less of a dick about the subject.

Unfortunately, when residents found that the one patient at the new place was black, they mobbed the place, set it on fire, and chased the patient and caretaker onto a boat.

We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.

Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

I don't dislike him because he's a Jew,' said Mr. Nunnery. 'One can't dismiss whole races at a time.' 'He's all right.' 'You'd hardly know he was a Jew.' 'Oh, no. Hardly at all.

The Jew's really the better-looking.

She was an old woman who thought all evil of those she did not know, and all good of those whom she did know....

There are Miss Edgeworth's novels down-stairs, and 'Pride and Prejudice' in my bed-room. I don't subscribe to Mudie's, because when I asked for 'Adam Bede,' they always sent me the 'Bandit Chief.

There are men who rarely think well of women, — who hardly think well of any woman. They put their mothers and sisters into the background, — as though they belonged to some sex or race apart, — and then declare to themselves and to their friends that all women are false, — that no woman can be trusted unless her ugliness protect her;

Though she hardly knew how to explain the matter even to herself, she was sure that there was at present a general heaving-up of society on this matter, and a change in progress which would soon make it a matter of indifference whether anybody was Jew or Christian. For

In the 1820s there was prejudice, but there was also progress.

Wolfe Tone proposed that Anti-Catholicism belonged to 'the dark ages of superstition', not 'the days of illumination, at the close of the eighteenth century'.

Como si fuera más digno morirse de leucemia que de SIDA. Como si fuera indigno ser sidoso. Como si en la muerte hubiera alguna dignidad

Tall men are the most romantically successful group on earth, bar none: more successful than rich people, accomplished people and educated people.

If half this country feels so threatened by two people of the same gender being in love and having sex (and, incidentally, enjoying equal protection under the law), that they turn their attention—during wartime—to blocking rights already denied to homosexuals, then all the cardio striptease classes in the world aren't going to render us sexually liberated.

The Van Dykes had determined that America was suffering from "testosterone poisoning," and vowed that they would speak to men only if they were waiters or mechanics

See why I think I owe you good advice? And please don't look on me with prejudice: My gender has no bearing on the question Whether I'm offering you a good suggestion.

The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen. -We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends.

The Devil in the Dark] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.