#prejudice

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#among #applicable #busy #cry #essential

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#comedies #disagree #dramas #good #good movies

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. ↗

— Robert Hall

#apt #authority #custom #enforced #favor

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. ↗

— James Hillman

#class #economics #gender #i #prejudices

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#loss #prejudice #sometimes #vigor

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#i #mind #onto #prejudices

Prejudices save time. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#save #time

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#least #once #prejudices #rearrange #their

The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful - and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride-and-prejudice #beauty