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  • Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

  • The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

    Ocean   Curves   Rivers  
    BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.
  • willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

  • Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

    Beautiful   Sex   Loss  
    Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100
  • The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

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

    Color   Battle   Monsters  
    Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”
  • Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

    William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.102
  • We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated

    Years   Prejudice   Today  
  • Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe that their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.

    Believe   Law   Race  
  • A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.

    Reading   Home   Men  
    John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”
  • The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

    Rights   Law   Favors  
    Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published”, p.457
  • When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

    "How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day". Book by Gerry Spence, March 1995.
  • And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

    Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press
  • I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices.

  • Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

  • Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

    Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan
  • My intention has been to encourage viewers to face their prejudices about prostitution, sex and aging while reflecting on the complex and varied forms that love and loneliness can take.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.

    Horse   Father   Stupid  
  • I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.

  • The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

  • Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

  • Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

    Doe   Prejudice   Spirit  
  • If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

  • When your mind is empty of prejudices you can see the Tao. When your heart is empty of desires you can follow the Tao.

    Heart   Mind   Taoism  
  • Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

    Thinking   Hands   People  
  • Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.

    Believe   Taken   School  
  • However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

    BBC Intreview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.
  • I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

    Funny   Strong   Humor  
  • We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.

    School   Mean   Winning  
  • Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

    Rain   Angel   Blow  
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