#prejudice

Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?' 'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.' 'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#jennifer-paynter #love #mary-bennet #peter-bushell #pride-and-prejudice

Live your life with a perspective of “Us ↗

— Martin Suarez

#compassionate #life #life-lessons #love #one-body

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#men

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#argument #clichés #conduct #damage #danger

Love is too precious to be ashamed of. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#inspirational #love #prejudice #romance #inspirational

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain. ↗

— Jane Austen

#inspirational #jane-austen #pride-and-prejudice #inspirational

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you. ↗

— Elise Broach

#prejudice #wisdom #inspirational

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 hard comes along. A man steps up. He doesn't dodge it or run away from it or try to push it onto someone else. He steps up. Even if it isn't his responsibility. And that's why there are so many guys and so few men. Because stepping up is hard. ↗

— Ben Monopoli

#inspirational #prejudices #inspirational

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#efficient #failings #know #know yourself #only

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#bridges #conditions #construction #down #embarrassed