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It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests.
If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.
What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.
Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.
A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.
It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.
There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.
Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.
I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.
Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.
Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.
Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.