#prejudice

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#duty #easy #getting #jury #jury duty

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#glaring #injustice #prejudice #see #who

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#advertising agencies #agencies #anywhere #fear #found

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#consistent #friends #himself #his #literary

And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!" "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride-and-prejudice #food

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish! ↗

— Dorothy Kilgallen

#children #jewish #my own #own #prejudices

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. ↗

— Frank Knox

#most #occasionally #our #prejudices #rearrange

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #difficult #error #fixed #formed

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#because #black #discriminated #experienced #grew

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. "Well," said the man, "I shouldn't have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing." I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#conversation #double-standards #feminism #fiction #gender