#prejudice

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them. ↗

— Howard Barker

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Prejudices save time. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#save #time

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#contradict #existing #first #first law #journalism

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

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A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

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