Prejudice

Quotes about Prejudice.

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• He hears but half who hears one party only.
  • Æschylus, Eum, 428; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 631.

• The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
  • Christian Nestell Bovee, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 105.

• Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
  • Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).

• Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
  • He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
  • Carlo Goldoni, Pamela (c. 1750), I, 14.

• Remember, when the judgment's weak,
  The prejudice is strong.
  • Kane O'Hara, Midas, Air, Act I, scene 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 632.

• How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.
  • Madame Necker; reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 229.

• When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
  • Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 484.

Against Polish people

see: Anti-Polonism