Prejudice – Quotes

Give me a prejudice

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe … Read more

Those who wait for

Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests … Read more

The worst mistake I

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

We accepted education as

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. Evelyn Boyd Granville

The much vaunted male

The much vaunted male logic isn’t logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. Eva Figes

For centuries the word

For centuries the word ‘nature’ has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see. Eva Figes

I wished to acquire

I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; … and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows … Read more

There is something very

There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist’s career should go and all that. Esa-Pekka Salonen

The multiplicity is only

The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way. Erwin Schrodinger