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H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920 · Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice · Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil." – Macduff
Prejudice is the reasoning of fools. – Author Unknown
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods. – Francis Quarles
You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society. – Doris Lessing
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. – George Aiken
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. – Mark Twain
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. – H.L. Mencken
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. – Benjamin Franklin
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society. – Daniel Webster
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. – W. C. Fields
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias. – Albert Einstein
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias. – Albert Einstein
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880) – Mark Twain
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. – Andre Bernard Buruch
In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute. – Rupert Sheldrake
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. – Johann Georg Zimmermann
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. – Sydney Smith
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. – Francis Jeffrey
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. – Hebrew Proverb
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. – Maya Angelou
Prejudice is ignorance. – Michael Jackson
Prejudice is opinion without judgement. – Voltaire
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. – William Hazlitt
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks. – Duchess de Abrantes

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