There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People are unique in the inner life of the mind — what they are...

A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

A stereotype is not a stereotype if it’s true.

It’s not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing wife or whether commercials make you cry. […] it’s about whether you step up. When something...

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label...

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

…new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freedom, and indeed the most harmless among all the things to which this...

What I tried to do, as best I could, was keep a kind of balancing act in motion, … I have my prejudices and politics and so-forth, but if I was going to err, I...

Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person. The reason is they’re categorized as Romances, which is where they are shelved in...

Clarence Darrow, one of history’s greatest lawyers, once noted “There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.” Perhaps because justice is a flawed concept that ultimately comes down to the decision...

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father’s. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he...

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary...

Until the human condition could be resolved it was not safe to acknowledge the different roles men and women played in the journey to enlightenment. Over time it was found that the best way to...

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them — and what they should think about themselves.

Noah had transformed in my eyes, too, butt it wasn’t because he had changed. It was my perception of him had changed. He’d always been the cool person I’d come to know and respect, I’d...

No, I mean, this is a problem that most people have. A problem of the human condition. We get ahold of some kind of shorthand in understanding people, and we think it works, and we...

It’s time for the Boy Scouts to open its membership to LGBT adults once and for all. Only then can they claim to have anything to teach our children.

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed....

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

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

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

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

I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)