We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.pg vi

Human Prejudice is Dark Fate’s favourite friend

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we...

When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out...

We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict.

Jake and I chatted at length and a compromise has been reached. We have agreed to carefully manage the players (in other words, they will not be run into the ground) and in return there...

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: “It won’t work. You can’t cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary’s clerk.

If you’re searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you’ll be able to see the real truth.

Hate people on an individual basis only – you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

I can’t understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching.

The upscale neighborhoods in Blue Sky Hill weren’t all lily white anymore, but you could be sure their kids didn’t wear our kind of clothes, or get free lunches at the Summer Kitchen, or pick...

He’d been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into...

Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and American citizens parallel these findings (19,33):- fear and exclusion: persons with severe mental illness should be feared and, therefore,...

And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings alone were the way that others must follow, and claimed special knowledge of...

You haven’t even Fucking watched one piece. you’re such a ignorant cunt. watch one piece. Watch it then judge, hate or whatever.

I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, “Harvard didn’t want me.” I said I was sorry that Harvard turned her down. She replied, “No, I received...

[T]he more clamour we make about ‘the women’s point of view’, the more we rub it into people that the women’s point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is —...

Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s “tradition.

Miss Gates is a nice lady, ain’t she?”Why sure,” said Jem. “I liked her when I was in her room.”She hates Hitler a lot . . .”What’s wrong with that?”Well, she went on today about...

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are...

Applause: the echo of a prejudice.

…the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round in rags of our virtues, and regarding others through the mist...

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the...

[O]ne person’s ‘barbarian’ is another person’s ‘just doing what everybody else is doing.

white supremacist control” over other black people.

He had but one eye and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two.

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

This is not a book about whether one can be good without God, because that question does not need to be answered –it needs to be rejected outright. To suggest that one can’t be good...

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all...

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live.Where’s that?Well, in our nation’s capital and New York City. I’ve seen it. I’ve lived there.

Everybody comes with prejudices, colored glasses on their eyes. Then they see everything colored according to their glasses. Yes, a few people come just like you, unprejudiced, without any idea gathered from yellow journalism.

God is everyone’s pleasure and also a prejudice!

It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda’s genocide described as a product of “ancient tribal hatreds.” I think this is an easy way for Westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but...

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently...

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not...

Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

Whether in private debate or in public, any attempt I made to explain how the Black Muslim movement came about, and how it has achieved such force, was met with a blankness that revealed the...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have...

Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others…He disbelieved the ancient myths and miracles taught by established creeds. But the attacks on...

the stigma of severe mental illness leads to prejudice and discrimination. Stigmas are negative and erroneous attitudes about these persons. Unfortunately, stigma’s impact on a person’s life may be as harmful as the direct effects...

I won’t be a slave to the past. I’ll love where I choose.

Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.