Win The Life

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. - Lord Francis Jeffrey

 

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. - Byron Raymond White

 

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken

 

Gold has worked down from Alexanders time, When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory. - Bernard Mannes Baruch

 

Free-thinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless. - Leo Tolstoy

 

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. - Adlai Ewing Stevenson

 

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

 

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. - Ambrose Bierce

 

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. - Sydney Smith

 

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.-Joseph Addison

 

All colors will agree in the dark.-Francis Bacon

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.-Ambrose Bierce

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.-Charlotte Bronte

 

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.-Lord Chesterfield

 

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.-W. C. Fields

 

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.-William Hazlitt

 

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.-William Hazlitt

 

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.-William Hazlitt

 

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.-Adlai E. Stevenson

 

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.-Bob Gibson

 

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.-Simon Greenleaf

 

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.-Paul Robeson

 

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.-George Crook

 

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.-Joseph Lancaster

 

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.-Henry A. Wallace

 

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.-Paul Harris

 

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.-Hubert H. Humphrey

 

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.-K. D. Lang

 

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.-Jose Serrano

 

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.-Ambrose Bierce

 

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.-Philip Zimbardo

 

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.-Elihu Root

 

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.-Maya Angelou

 

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.-E. B. White

 

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.-Ben Hecht

 

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.-Marian Anderson

 

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.-William Hazlitt

 

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.-Kate Smith

 

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.-Robert Peel

 

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.-Francis J. Grimke

 

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.-Pearl S. Buck

 

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.-Allan Bloom

 

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.-Mary Church Terrell

 

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.-Sean Bean

 

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.-Thomas Willis

 

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.-Eric Hoffer

 

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.-Arthur Schopenhauer

 

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.-Alexander Cockburn

 

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.-Bram Fischer

 

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.-Charles Caleb Colton

 

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.-Tom C. Clark

 

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.-Tim Holden

 

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.-Clint Eastwood

 

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.-Goldwin Smith

 

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.-Katherine Dunham

 

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.-Nat King Cole

 

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.-Amar Bose

 

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.-Hideki Tojo

 

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.-Byron White

 

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.-Redd Foxx

 

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.-Francis Wright

 

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.-Henry A. Wallace

 

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.-Mark Twain

 

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.-Ezra Pound

 

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.-Nina Simone

 

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.-Linda Chavez

 

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.-William Hazlitt

 

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.-Andre Gide

 

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.-Major Taylor

 

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.-Adam Weishaupt

 

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.-Hideki Tojo

 

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.-Herbert Spencer

 

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.-Charles Hamilton Houston

 

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.-Edward James Olmos

 

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.-Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

 

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.-Maxim Gorky

 

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.-Phyllis McGinley

 

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.- David Brin