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With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.
You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.
A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.
I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
I thought about how many preconcieved prejudices would crumble when i trotted right along for 26 miles.
We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them.
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
'Extreme Prejudice' is the last of the Mohicans. I don't think we'll ever see a film made like that again.
I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
The sad truth is that millions of people with mental illness suffer stigma and prejudice, especially at work.
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.