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I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.
When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender.
Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.
In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.
All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.
Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that's what we're doing.
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.
The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.
The 'Pride and Prejudice' with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home in Oxfordshire.
We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.
In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.
You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.
What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.
The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.