Quotes About Prejudice

Nevertheless, when you did not know what you were looking for, it was important to avoid all prejudices and preconceptions; something that at first sight seemed irrelevant, or even nonsensical, might turn out to be a vital clue.

You must know that the English people would never accept a half-black woman as their queen.

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

Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhohnen was sie nicht verstehen.

Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

A clean house is a sign of mental inferiority.

Being compared to a Russian pogromchik didn't faze that German as much as hearing Brody called Sodom. Did he fly off the handle! The Russians, he said, had the right idea. If you asked him, there should be more pogroms.

Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are." — Dr. Kat Hunter

She had found that men who were outstandingly handsome were either monumentally stupid or unbearably dull.

was not fond of Americans. He found them rude, materialistic and naïve.

There were some people you hated on sight, just as there were others you liked on sight.

Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

Hostility comes in all ages, sizes and shapes

All rich Americans are crazy, especially their women.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]

But it is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Society thus brands what is unpleasant as untrue, denying the conclusions of psychoanalysis with logical and pertinent arguments. These arguments originate from affective sources, however, and society holds to these prejudices against all attempts at refutation.

Being afraid of somebody who's different'll make an awful meanness come over you.

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

Critically, I realised that terrorists, who I had always imagined as horned devils, could be worryingly human.

You think that's what America wants – to rule the world and crush you?' The man answered with a sneer. 'America will die. Why? Because they're 25 million gays, more than 4 million lesbians, 17 million drug addicts and many people who live in poverty.

Jack Good, a veteran of Bletchley, commented: "Fortunately the authorities did not know that Turing was a homosexual. Otherwise we might have lost the war.

NaÅ¡tÄ›stí nahoÃ…â"¢e nevÄ›dÄ›li, že Turing je homosexuál, jinak bychom také mohli prohrát válku.

Another party, who took an iron boat named the Explorer into the Black Canyon of the lower Colorado River, came across an Indian of what they considered such staggering ugliness that one of their number, a German visitor attached to the party, voted to kill him, pickle him in alcohol as a zoological specimen, and take him back to New York for forensic inspection. The proposal was rejected, however, and the hapless man lived.