#prejudices

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#differ #environment #equanimity #even #expressing

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

— William Hazlitt

#almost #christianity #essence #every #perversion

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

— William Hazlitt

#barbarous #everything #his #own #prejudices

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

— Howard Barker

#i #i do #personal #plenty #political

The air is the only place free from prejudices. ↗

— Bessie Coleman

#free #only #place #prejudices

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#men

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

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#depend #dislikes #egotism #identity #likes

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

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#criminals #god #good-and-bad #good-and-evil #heaven