Get the Quote of the Day for Prejudice
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearance.
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Never mistrust the rabbit who has taken your money. It might return with a carrot.
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