#prejudice

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women. ↗

— Kate Smith

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance. ↗

— David Brin

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I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#prejudice #prejudices #racism #stantasyland #life

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ↗

— Robert Peel

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I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human. ↗

— Katy Perry

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First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician. ↗

— John Podesta

#foremost #guy #half #him #i

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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