#dice

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#commence #confidence #cowardice #disarm #distrust

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices. ↗

— John Henry Mackay

#brief #i #make #never #other

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#easily #got #longer #old #prejudices

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #commitment #contrast #difference #entire

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#believe #beyond #feel #gone #i

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever. ↗

— Jim McKay

#gender #like #lot #oftentimes #open

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean? ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#business #could #dice #every #fantastic

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#does #fullness #homosexuals #hopes #i

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#made #plausible #prejudice

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#go #go to hell #hell #live #may