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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
(Allan Bloom (1930-1992), U.S. educator, author. "From Socrates' Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede," pt. 3, The Closing of the American Mind (1987).)
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of nought but prejudice!
(Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), French author. Mme Delbène, in L'Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du Vice, pt. 1 (1797).)
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
(William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. "On the Tendency of Sects," The Round Table (1817).)
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Every word is a prejudice.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 577, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Wanderer and His Shadow, aphorism 55, "The Danger Language Poses to Intellectual Freedom," (1880).)
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... prejudice marks a mental land mine.
(Gloria Steinem (b. 1934), U.S. feminist, author, and editor. Moving Beyond Words, part 2 (1994).)
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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.
(Gordon W. Allport (1897-1967), U.S. psychologist, educator. The Nature of Prejudice, ch. 1, Beacon Press (1954).)
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... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
(Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924), African American politician. Unbought and Unbossed, ch. 13 (1970).
Chisholm was a Congresswoman from a poor African American district in Brooklyn.)
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The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
(Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar," ch. 69, Following the Equator (1897).)
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Wilhelm Meister's Travels, from Makarie's Archive (1829).)
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Prejudice. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
(Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), U.S. author. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906), repr. In Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, vol. 7 (1911).)
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