Quotes About Ignorance And Prejudice

#1. Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

Kofi Annan

#2. Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

Lord Chesterfield

#3. Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

H.G.Wells

#4. Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits of our coarse personality.

J.B.Alves

#5. A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#6. Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

George Orwell

#7. Ignorance and prejudice and fear go hand in hand

Neil Peart

#8. One condemns the whole past as a time of ignorance and prejudice, while knowing nothing of that past and very little of the present.

Julia P. Gelardi

#9. The modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.

Emma Goldman

#10. If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.

James Hilton

#11. Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

Harry S. Truman

#12. We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Maya Angelou

#13. The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.

Michael Jackson

#14. People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#15. What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance.

Hans Jurgen Eysenck

#16. There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

Roger Bacon

#17. Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

Michael Jackson

#18. We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.

Ronald Coase

#19. If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

Marcus Aurelius

#20. Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand ... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

Neil Peart

#21. The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but it's still a place where you can attack religion out of utter, complete, bottomless ignorance and not be considered to have done anything wrong.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#22. Prejudice begins with ignorance, and whenever one culture first meets another, there is ignorance.

Vinh Chung

#23. If the Church knew all the commandments, one half they would condemn through prejudice and ignorance.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#24. I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink ...

William S. Burroughs

#25. English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#26. I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only the prejudice and ignorance that dismisses any book, unread, as not worth reading."
"On Despising Genres," essay

Ursula K. Le Guin

#27. There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow.

Anthony Liccione

#28. Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#29. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

Clarence Darrow

#30. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Joseph Addison

#31. When you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

Ann M. Martin

#32. Religious fervor controlled by prejudice and ignorance is the greatest calamity that can befall a nation.

John R. Musick

#33. 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 their new gun on an intruder.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Ian Leslie