Quotes About Prejudice

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

People tend 2 choke that which they do not understand

It's a public service when a gay chick goes lipstick instead of lumberjack.

The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You're generation lacks the drive.

The fear of barbarians is what risks making us barbarians.

For all practical purposes "race" is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth.

End discrimination. Hate everybody.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.

Then, as now, the issue is control. Then, as now, the prejudice of the super rich, and their fear of women, the poor, the migrant, and the coloured, shapes what they call 'science', as the ultimate objective truth, when in reality it is the articulation of subjective prejudice, of fear of the other, of the uncontrollable urge to dominate.

Sometimes it's the girl who wouldn't give a kiss that the boys call a slut.

The bigots are winning," he said gloomily. "Both kinds of bigots…" The ambassador finished his sentence for him: "And the only losers are the learned." They all shook their heads.

English lecturers... who treat the Americans as a race of barbarians without any history should be taken for a tour round Washington before they are permitted to speak!

We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness.

Women, intelligent or not, were rarely reasonable.

If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.