Prejudice Means Quotes

#1. Prejudice means literally pre-judgment, the rejection of a contention out of hand, before examining the evidence. Prejudice is the result of powerful emotions, not of sound reasoning.

Carl Sagan

#2. Does this mean that frontiers from now on are to be in the imagination?

Jack Kerouac

#3. A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. 65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

Jay Leno

#5. Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Oscar Wilde

#6. It's not what you have to "do" that needs to change. It's first how you "think" that needs to change. It's who you have to "be" in order to "do" what needs to be done.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. Intersectionality means being aware of and acting on the fact that different forms of prejudice are connected, because they all stem from the same root of being 'other', 'different' or somehow 'secondary' to the 'normal', 'ideal' status quo.

Laura Bates

#8. And here is a prejudice of mine, confirmed by my lights through many years of observation. Sinners are not all dishonorable people, not by any means. But those who are dishonorable never really repent and never really reform.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices.

Bill Maher

#10. Glitter is my makeup of choice.

Kesha

#11. Declining birth rates mean that employers are going to have to become more creative if they want to access the knowledge workers they need. And that means abandoning the lazy prejudice of age discrimination.

Ken Robinson

#12. When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

Celia Green

#13. Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.

Charles Kennedy

#14. Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.

Allan Bloom

#15. Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being.
To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.

Keith Stanfield

#17. This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

Adam Weishaupt

#18. The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.

Orson Scott Card

#19. We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.

Otto Frank

#20. People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of conversations and learn from each other in a way that would not happen if there were the walls of ignorant prejudice between us.
Oisce

Arin Murphy-Hiscock

#21. But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

Paula Cole

#22. I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry because I opened a magazine and I saw myself in a picture on a motorcycle, and the headline was, 'I'm getting married next month.'

Penelope Cruz

#23. I know what she is talking about.
Namely, everything I refused to talk about, in court: what it is like to know that you are a target, because of the color of your skin. What it means to work hard, to be an impeccable employee, and have none of that make a difference in the face of prejudice.

Jodi Picoult

#24. Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#25. Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Ambrose Bierce

#26. Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

Jerry West

#27. What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Maxim Gorky

#28. A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.

Jack Gardner

#29. When it comes to white jeans, fabric is key.

George Kotsiopoulos

#30. The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.

Oswald Chambers