#prejudice

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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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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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. ↗

— Carlo Goldoni

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

— Alexander Cockburn

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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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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

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Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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