Prejudice
Definition: Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Give rise to prejudice in (someone); make biased.
Number of Quotes: 16
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the
man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. Fields
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
Carly Fiorina
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
Katharine Graham
If you want to push something ... you're accused of being aggressive, and that's not supposed to
be a good thing for a woman. If you get upset and show it, you're accused of being emotional.
Mary Harney
A new type of woman arises. She is called a career woman. A man is never a career man. That is his right and
privilege. But the woman is called career woman because her career
... demands that she ... even renounce normal life.
C. L. R. James
When women ask for equality, men take them to be demanding domination.
Elizabeth Janeway
The moment a person forms a theory his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favour that theory.
Thomas Jefferson
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
Margaret Mead
If the parties will at my hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the
one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
Thomas More
Given the natural differences between human beings, equality is an ethical aspiration
that cannot be realized without recourse either to despotism or to an act of fraternity.
Octavio Paz
All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope
Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
Hannen Swaffer
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased
opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiassed opinion is always absolutely valueless.
Oscar Wilde
Last on Earth
