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A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
We arrive in the rooms tangled up in a web of complexity and confusion. Our lives are unmanageable because our minds are unmanageable.” – p. 134
— Ray A., Practice These Principles: Living the Spiritual Disciplines and Virtues in 12-Step Recovery to Achieve Spiritual Growth, Character Development, and Emotional Sobriety
You have no idea how strong my love is!
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm miles from where you areI lay down on the cold groundAnd I, I pray that something picks me upAnd sets me down in your warm arms.
— Snow Patrol
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
One of the most egregiously stupid books I've ever come across. I would recommend reading this only because it's the epitome of all that is moronic, superficial, contrived, hollow, false and utterly laughable in publishing today.
— Kris Saknussemm
He said, "Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But both are equally true.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone...
— Elizabeth Gilbert
After people pray and receive as they want, they may easily perceive it as the fulfillment.Another may see that as a mere coincidence.As for me, universe keeps doing something that causes some of all creation will start praying for it.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Set your strong intention, work hard, and pray, slowly but surely, what you strive for will come to be. This is God’s law.” -127
— Ahmad Fuadi, Negeri 5 Menara
In any circumstance, call on God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is much better to be addicted to the Word of God than to be in a critical condition because you didn’t pray
— Sunday Adelaja
When faced with trials, pray so that you cannot be the trial yourself.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Without prayer, life is a panic.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who worry stumble long The Way.Those who pray have no time to stray.
— Errol Anthony Smythe
If you continue to pray, it will be permanent habit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we pray, we will be purified.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We shall prevail in any problem, if we pray
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Preach little, Pray more;But Pray for all, not for your own satisfaction;
— Mishra Ankit
Day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, God wants us to talk to Him. But are we too busy in our daily lives to speak some words to Him? God reaches out and speaks to us in many various ways. But are we hearing them?
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength to conform even though those paths be narrow.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
God is alive in each one of us. We just need to bend our knees, hold our hands together and open our hearts to Him.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
There is a right way to pray and a wrong way to pray!
— Paul Silway, Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
Slow down; live fast, Who’s right and who’s not?Who am I to tell you so?Seek within; pray to the man above,Who’s right, and who’s wrong?But who am I to tell you so?Man created God on his own image,God created Satan, and Satan created man,But who is right and who’s not?Who the hell am I to tell you so?Live fast or slow, Create your demons and conquer your fears,Seek within, or look up and hope for the man above,No one’s right, no one’s wrongBut, who am I to tell you so?
— Quetzal
But facts abound to the affirmation that most Christians in my nation Nigeria and all around the world, would rather pray to God to come and fix their country than do something about it themselves.
— Sunday Adelaja
We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God’s protection.
— Sunday Adelaja
If you believe that your needs were met because you prayed, then you make God the parent who reacts only when the baby cries. Matthew 6:25-34.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2 (Read Chapter One)): Astounding Biblical Mysteries revealed in his own words like never before in human history.
Only God gets the glory when revival comes to town.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Thank fucking God. Christ, sorry about praying with “fucking.” Shit! Sorry about saying “Christ!” Shut up, Dove. God hates you.
— Debra Anastasia, Fire in the Hole
Don't pray for materialstic things. Pray for internal peace what God wills for you.
— Kishore Bansal
When the evening comes, prepare yourself for the morrow ~Donald Pillai
— Donald Pillai
When in doubt pray.
— Amanda Penland
Okay, but if you try to get me to pray with you, I walk.
— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.
— Ched Myers, Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus
I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
When Praying, I just said sorry and amen. sorry again
— G.G.
Don't pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
— JFK
I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up
— John Bunyan
...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...
— John Geddes
When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon his knees.
— William Cowper
Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.
— Syed Ather
work, pray and play not from here
— Eman Herzallah
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
— Albert Einstein
Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
— Dale Carnegie
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
— Emma Goldman
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
— Maya Angelou
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
— Clint Eastwood
The way that other people judge me is none of my business.
— Martha N. Beck
Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.
— Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queens' Book Of Love
People decide what you're like before they even get to know you
— Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
Miss Gates is a nice lady, ain't she?"Why sure," said Jem. "I liked her when I was in her room."She hates Hitler a lot . . ."What's wrong with that?"Well, she went on today about how bad it was him treating the Jews like that. Jem, it's not right to persecute anybody, is it? I mean have mean thoughts about anybody, even, is it?"Gracious no, Scout. What's eatin' you?"Well, coming out of the courthouse that night Miss Gates was--- she was going' down the steps in front of us, you musta not seen her--- she was talking with Miss Stephanie Crawford. I heard her say it's time somebody time somebody taught 'em a lesson, they were gettin' way above themelves, an' the next thing they think they can do is marry us. Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home---
— Harper Lee
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
— Eckhart Tolle
Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
— Ambrose Bierce
All the dreams you show up in are not your own.
— Gil Scott-Heron
I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.
— Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers.
— Jack Gardner, Words Are Not Things
We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.
— David Ray Griffin
Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.
— bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.
— Jack Gardner, Words Are Not Things
A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?
— Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
People are always afraid of anything different. They are afraid of change," says Sensai. "It is the same everywhere.
— Sandy Fussell, Shaolin Tiger
They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.
— Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities
I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children.
— Maureen Johnson
This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
— Werley Nortreus
Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy.
— Bryant McGill
Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
— Anthony McGowan, Henry Tumour
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others.
— Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
What is it about humans that make us so prone to prejudice?”Blue arches one of his unnaturally colored eyebrows and looks up to meet my gaze. “If we didn’t form prejudices, we wouldn’t be learning from our environment, you dolt. It’s an animal instinct. If a porcupine’s quill gets stuck in your hand once, you won’t be likely to go grabbing it again soon, right?
— Rhi Etzweiler, Blacker than Black
I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists]
— John McCain
As she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of hair, and a tendency to slouch, she had neither Mae's sweet nature nor sweet face. Her eyes were rather beautiful, but few people ever noticed this, and it was widely believed Maddy was ugly, a troublemaker, too clever for her own good, too stubborn - or too slack - to change.Of course, folk agreed that it was not her fault she was so brown or her sister so pretty, but a smile costs nothing, as the saying goes, and if only the girl had made an effort once in a while, or even showed a little gratitude for all the help and free advice, then maybe she would have settled down.
— Joanne Harris, Runemarks
[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]
— Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Why, you may ask, didn't we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant idea of telling the farmers why he wanted the cow. The God-fearing folk would sell their cows to be eaten, but not for raising zombies. Prejudiced bastards.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Bloody Bones
It is founded on the worst instincts of mankind. At its best, it is intolerant and bigoted. At its worst, it is sadistic and brutal. Between these two poles it has its existence.
— Susan Carol McCarthy, Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands
...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Remember this as long as you live: Whenever you meet up with anyone who is trying to cause trouble between people, anyone who tries to tell you that a man can't be a good American because he's a Catholic, or a Jew, a Protestant, or whatever, you can be pretty sure he's a rotten American himself. Not only a rotten American, but a rotten human being. Don't ever forget that.
— Superman
If a man fears dogs, he may beat one with a stick when he sees it. As is the nature of all creatures, that dog will bite him. And then he may tell everyone that he was right about dogs, that they are evil. But I ask you, who is at fault in this scenario, the man or the dog?
— Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch
The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion.
— Alexander Hamilton
Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.
— Thomas Paine, The Crisis
Prejudices are holes in people's general knowledge, filled with negative nonsense.
— M.Z.Riffi - The Queen of Granada
But I think tackling prejudices is as important as offering shelter.”AdvertisementSimpson said she planned to encourage the Syrian women to have a coffee with their female neighbours.
— Steven Morris
Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties, he said.
— Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
His own mother’s blood was mixed between her Lakota mother and a French trapper. His father’s family came from Scotland to escape the English. The differences weren’t a problem with his mother’s people but among his father’s there was intolerance and prejudice.
— A.G. Graham, Yavapai County Line: West of the Divide Book 1
The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were limited.
— Alex  Lamb, Roboteer
I do not care for prejudice in any form. In my opinion, we women have been subjected to so much of it that I cannot see how anyone of my sex could fail to identify with those similarly oppressed.
— Dianne Day, The Strange Files of Fremont Jones
The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your prejudices.
— Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean
But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Imagine you’re diagnosed with epilepsy: what would you think if you weren’t referred to a specialist but taken to a psychiatrist to treat you for your ‘false illness beliefs’?This is what happens to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) patients in the UK. They are told to ignore their symptoms, view themselves as healthy, and increase their exercise. The NHS guidelines amalgamate ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, assuming symptoms are caused by deconditioning and ‘exercise phobia’. Sufferers are offered Graded Exercise to increase fitness, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to rid them of their ‘false illness beliefs’.
— Tanya  Marlow
Still, it seemed to us that the main reason we were hated must be that we always lived by stealing. From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men's ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food. Sometimes we were accused of biting human children; I didn't believe that, nor did any of us⎼unless it was some kind of a subnormal rat, bred in the worst of city slums. And that, of course, can happen to people, too.
— Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Recently, I have seen an increasing amount of disdain for political corectness, and I’ve been wondering why. Why is there so much hatred for a concept that was created solely so that people would respect one another?
— Cate O'Brien
That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.
— Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Prejudice. It's a bad thing. Once your mind is prejudiced, you will not think beneath or beyond. Actually, you will stop thinking.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged belief that this treatment is deserved, or at least allowable.
— Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
I once heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever a student wearing blue shirt had committed a mistake. I thought that was pretty bad. I then heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever someone in blue shirt committed a mistake somewhere else. Clearly, the worst is not a reality.
— Pawan Mishra
You are blinded,” said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, his eyes blazing once more, “by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius! You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow up to be!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
A part of me understands the need to keep order, but another part worries that we are being led to fear the wrong things. It's just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country's own fear.
— Stacey  Lee, Outrun the Moon
Sorry, folks, but the maximum occupancy is seventy-five,” Albert said. Then he spotted Jack. “Jack, how’s it going?”“What? Oh, fine.” Jack was confused as to how to proceed. He didn’t want to wait in line if Brianna wasn’t even inside.“You look like a man with a question,” Albert prompted.“Well, I’m kind of looking for Brianna. We had this…it’s a…tech thing. You wouldn’t understand.”“Breeze is already inside.”One of the kids in the line said, “Of course she is, she’s a freak. They always get in.”A second kid nodded. “Yeah, the freaks don’t wait in lines. Bet she didn’t have to pay, either.”Albert said, “Hey, she got here a little before you guys did and she waited. And she paid.” Then to Jack. “Go ahead in.”“See?” the first kid crowed. “He’s one, too.”“Dude, he set up my sound system,” Albert said. “What have you done for me other than stand here and bust on me?
— Michael  Grant, Hunger
I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved.
— E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a determination necessarily arises from an obsession. It constitutes an utterly sterile effort to get rid of it. In such a case the light of attention is the only thing which is effective, and it is not compatible with a polemical intention.
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Just last week I was telling a dear friend how I'd rather not exist in a world where toxic thrives. There are so much enmity plaguing this creed, how we hurt others because we think our idea of faith is supreme, how our interpretation of knowledge is above theirs, how every little whisper we turn into a howl. We forget that only He knows. Our existence are but mysteries; who are we to scar, to burn, to leave marks, to solve this enigma for others, to play God.The Friday prayer sermon just this afternoon, spoke to me in such illuminating affirmations. Knowledge, especially in faith, is akin to Light. Light binds, not divides. We seek light not out of fear of the darkness but at a promise to gain clarity. This is our intimate journey, how we move towards that Light is ours to make. Like a blind man, like moths at night, a child yearning, just do not stand in their paths, my friend. Your forehead kisses the same Earth like they do, your knees bend the same curve, and each night, your spine collapses just the same. Do not be the lips that question an arm sleeved with tattoos or hair uncovered by cloth or sins not yours, instead be lips that observes silence, kindness and always, prayers for all. I hope your heart does not make space for words like "Kafir", "infidel", "shirk" and instead be a room with gardens and an ocean of calmness. Even our Beloved won't be a judge for another being; Let GodYou seek knowledge not to draw boundaries between yourself and others, you seek for this overwhelming gravity of unknowing needs you to always be finding ways to be closer to Him. You seek knowledge to know Him not to make known to others. You have every right to continue seeking, to have your palms heavenwards every night begging to be illuminated. This is your deeper conversation, go on, just you and God.
— Noor Iskandar
Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.
— Lion Feuchtwanger
Let the whole world tag you wrongly, brand you with evil and create a different you, and let God give you a solemn tag of dignity and see you differently, you have no problem at all!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
That’s the difference between them and us. ‘Them’ view foxes as vermin, and ‘us’ identify with the fox.
— Luggs, Consort : The Prince and the Pauper
House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.
— La Tisha Honor, Teen Roach
...I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them up from the strangest places, and if they appear to work once we can live a whole lifetime by them, regardless of the unhappiness and difficulty they may later bring.
— Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
He was not talking with US, but with his IMAGE of us.
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices
—  and his pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
Diversity does not simply mean the color of ones akin.
— Hiba Fatima Ahmad
There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.
— Josef Joffe
There are many injustices in the world, but some are worse than others. You can hate someone because he's poor, because of the clothes he wears, or for his political views. But a person can change that. If you hate someone for being a Jew or an Arab, he cannot rub off his skin. That sort of prejudice is the greatest injustice...next to taking someone's life.
— Shane Peacock
Talking of appearances, I would like my future readers to know that the picture of Jim and me that Thomas Hart Benton painted on the wall of the Missouri state capitol bears not the slightest resemblance to either one of us. ... I've never been satisfied with any representation of myself and have seen only one picture of Jim that did him justice. I don't know why this should be, unless it is evidence of a nearly universal prejudice against us, instigated by Sunday school superintendents, Republicans, and bigots.
— Norman Lock, The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel
The right wing has a large proportion of authoritarian personalities. They tend to believe man is, by nature, basically evil. Surrounded as all of us are by the bigness of impersonal forces which seem beyond our power to control, they look for the 'enemy', so that they can hate him. At different times in history 'the enemy' has been the witch, the demon, the Communist (remember Joe McCarthy?), and now sex education, sensitivity training, 'non-religious humanism', and other current d
— Carl R. Rogers, On Encounter Groups
She had wanted her son to stand for what he believed and to be respectful. And he had died for believing his friends had a right to play their music loud, to be American teenagers.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already another form of violence.
— Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.
— Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinions you have been in the habit of hearing. It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much knowledge of the clergy. You can have been personally acquainted with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusively.
— Jane Austen
Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.
— Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
It is impossible to read through the reports in the Communist Press without realizing that they are consciously aimed at a public ignorant of the facts and have no other purpose than to work up prejudice.
— George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
— Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
The one thing she’d been able to count on her entire life was her cleverness. She was so often right. It was humbling and disorienting to realize that she in truth knew nothing at all. One only ever saw a fraction of someone, whatever it was they chose to show you, and extrapolated a whole person from that. And saw them through a prism of one’s own prejudices.
— Julie Anne Long
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
— Jane Austen
Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.
— Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch
Life is sexist. If you were to get pregnant, you’re the one whose life changes. Nothing of significance changes for the boy. You’re the one people whisper about. I’ve seen that show, Teen Moms. All those boys are worthless. Garbage!
— Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Prejudice is a belief born from a shortcut to thinking
— Steven Aitchison
A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.
— John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
For even though the rest of the city--no, the rest of the country--starved and searched fruitlessly for work and slept in a humpy in the park, society's finest could still squander their money however they saw fit.The unemployed, they would say, were lazy. If they worked harder, they'd do as well as Mr. Harry Moneypants was doing, who'd earned his vast fortune by having the foresightedness of selecting rich parents, who had, in their time, also cleverly selected rich parents.
— Justine Larbalestier, Razorhurst
Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.
— Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial
Prejudicial attitude toward each other in a team is an obstacle in the way to unity
— Sunday Adelaja
Gossipmongers = Toxic Hearts Toxic Hearts = Bigot Souls
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.
— Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
No elevator of progress with wells of prejudices. (Pas d'ascenseur de progrès - Avec puits de préjugés.)
— Charles de Leusse
When people misjudge, they inhale and exhale with obstinate, stagnant prejudice." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
— Angelica Hopes
I'm just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
People were clueless. Allthey ever went by was appearance and rumor.
— Jay Bell, Kamikaze Boys
God is everyone's pleasure and also a prejudice!
— Thiruman Archunan
When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.
— Marty Rubin
Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.
— Don Paterson, The Book of Shadows
All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.
— Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions
After all, it’s pretty hard to be prejudiced against blacks and gays when you’re a-okay with Klingons and the Green Men of Mars.
— Lou Anders
Prejudice is not a symptom of stupidity. Nor is it a symptom of evil. It is merely a symptom of ignorance.
— The Prophet of Life, Black In America: Essays and Poems about Racism in America on The 50th Anniversary of The March on Selma.
It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there’s gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not.
— Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Everybody comes with prejudices, colored glasses on their eyes. Then they see everything colored according to their glasses. Yes, a few people come just like you, unprejudiced, without any idea gathered from yellow journalism. 
— Osho
He knew that he, Millat, was a Paki no matter where he came from; that he smelled of curry; had no sexual identity; took other people’s jobs; or had no job and bummed off the state; or gave all the jobs to his relatives; that he could be a dentist or a shop-owner or a curry-shifter, but not a footballer or a filmmaker; that he should go back to his own country; or stay here and earn his bloody keep; that he worshiped elephants and wore turbans; that no one who looked like Millat, or spoke like Millat, or felt like Millat, was ever on the news unless they had recently been murdered.
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth
We Pashtuns love shoes but don't love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respect the weaver. Manual workers made a great contribution to our society but received no recognition, and this is the reason so many of them joined the Taliban—to finally achieve status and power.
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Whether in private debate or in public, any attempt I made to explain how the Black Muslim movement came about, and how it has achieved such force, was met with a blankness that revealed the little connection that the liberals' attitudes have with their perceptions or their lives, or even their knowledge—revealed, in fact, that they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim but had no sense of him as a man.
— James     Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and to examine the distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human behavior and expectation.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
What is surprising, even deeply disturbing, is the way that many individuals who consider themselves democratic, even-handed, rational, and free of prejudice, hold on tenaciously to a standard language ideology which attempts to justify restriction of individuality and rejection of the Other
— Rosina Lippi-Green
Ignorance and prejudice and fear go hand in hand
— Neil Peart
Never judge badly a rage of a very patient heart who had let go many repetitive offenses from insufferable bastards.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round in rags of our virtues, and regarding others through the mist of our self-sufficiency, and persuaded of our universal impeccability, do not understand this.
— Maxim Gorky, Her Lover
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
— Lillian Hellman
Why does everyone make fun of New Jersey? It's beautiful here," she said."We live in America.""What does that mean?""People like to judge without knowing.
— Rich Marcello, The Color of Home
Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but possessing its own laws and claims, an existence of men growing out of the soil prepared by the collective but blind will of a hundred million people. I beg you to recognize human life draped in a form and guise alien to ours, but springing from a soil plowed and sown by our own hands. I ask you to recognize laws and processes flowing from such a condition, understand them, seek to change them. If we do none of these, then we should not pretend horror or surprise when thwarted life expresses itself in fear and hate and crime.
— Richard Wright, Native Son
There were many deficits in our swamp education, but Grandpa Sawtooth, to his credit, taught us the names of whole townships that had been forgotten underwater. Black pioneers, Creek Indians, moonshiners, women, 'disappeared' boy soldiers who deserted their army camps. From Grandpa we learned how to peer beneath the sea-glare of the 'official, historical' Florida records we found in books. "Prejudice," as defined by Sawtooth Bigtree, was a kind of prehistoric arithmetic--a "damn, fool math"--in which some people counted and others did not. It meant white names on white headstones in the big cemetery in Cypress Point, and black and brown bodies buried in swamp water.At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well.
— Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, I doubt if there is any class which is not detestable to some other class. Artists, police, the clergy, "reds," foxhunters, Freemasons, Jews, "heaven-born," women's clubwomen (especially in U.S.A.), "Methodys," golfers, dog-lovers; you can't find one body without its "natural" enemies. It's right, what's worse; every class, as a class, is almost sure to have more defects than qualities. As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.
— Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
— Merry Brown
It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an easy way for Westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but pointless bloodbath that happens to primitive brown people.
— Paul Rusesabagina, An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of conversations and learn from each other in a way that would not happen if there were the walls of ignorant prejudice between us. --Oisce
— Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.
— Rebecca West, This Real Night
It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as of those who make a point of proclaiming them insuperable, as an excuse to themselves for never joining in an attempt to remove them. Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share it themselves truckle to it, and flatter it, and accept it as a law of nature.
— John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
The upscale neighborhoods in Blue Sky Hill weren't all lily white anymore, but you could be sure their kids didn't wear our kind of clothes, or get free lunches at the Summer Kitchen, or pick up used books and magazines down at the Book Basket store, or go to the public school. These days it wasn't about what color you were, but how much money you had. The same, only different. It was still people not wanting to be with people who weren't their kind.
— Lisa Wingate, Dandelion Summer
'Not drinking?' Collin asked coolly. 'I only drink the blood of virgins,' Logan quipped. 'You must be dehydrated then.' A slow smile spread over Logan's face. 'A sense of humor... rare in a Templar.' 
— Lia Black, Spiretown
Murdered by a kind of fear that seeks to obliterate any evidence that the world is different from the way they want to see it, from the way they want to believe it to be.
— Lana Wachowski
It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.
— Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men
The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest.
— George Washington
Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo enough to considering using antiseptic techniques.
— Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Another myth that is firmly upheld is that disabled people are dependent and non-disabled people are independent. No one is actually independent. This is a myth perpetuated by disablism and driven by capitalism - we are all actually interdependent. Chances are, disabled or not, you don’t grow all of your food. Chances are, you didn’t build the car, bike, wheelchair, subway, shoes, or bus that transports you. Chances are you didn’t construct your home. Chances are you didn’t sew your clothing (or make the fabric and thread used to sew it). The difference between the needs that many disabled people have and the needs of people who are not labelled as disabled is that non-disabled people have had their dependencies normalized. The world has been built to accommodate certain needs and call the people who need those things independent, while other needs are considered exceptional. Each of us relies on others every day. We all rely on one another for support, resources, and to meet our needs. We are all interdependent. This interdependence is not weakness; rather, it is a part of our humanity.
— A.J. Withers
Why don’t they complain?""They do sometimes. But usually there's nothing in particular to complain about. Take the case of Hardy's appointment: Who was to blame? Hardy himself? The men? It certainly wasn't the CO. But that's how it always is. Whenever one of us doesn't get an appointment or a promotion, there's always a mist of regulations that makes things unclear. On the surface everything in the army appears to be ruled by manuals, regulations, procedures: it seems very cut and dried. But actually, underneath there are all these murky shadows that you can never quite see: prejudice, distrust, suspicion.
— Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
— Lord Paulmerston
I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.
— Craig Ferguson
I only have one prejudice, and that is against those who are prejudiced.
— Lance Greenfield
This is not a book about whether one can be good without God, because that question does not need to be answered --it needs to be rejected outright. To suggest that one can't be good without belief in God is not just an opinion, a mere curious musing -- it is a prejudice.
— Greg M. Epstein, Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
What's it like here?There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones.
— Hiedi Thomas Jennifer Worth
Overnight, our neighbors began to look at us differently. Maybe it was the little girl down the road who no longer waved to us from her farmhouse window. Or the longtime customers who suddenly disappeared from our restaurants and stores. Or our mistress, Mrs. Trimble, who pulled us aside one morning as we were mopping her kitchen and whispered into our ear, "Did you know that the war was coming?" Club ladies began boycotting our fruit stands because they were afraid our produce might be tainted with arsenic. Insurance companies canceled our insurance. Banks froze our bank accounts. Milkmen stopped delivering milk to our doors. "Company orders," one tearful milkman explained. Children took one look at us and ran away like frightened deer. Little old ladies clutched their purses and froze up on the sidewalk at the sight of our husbands and shouted out, "They're here!" And even though our husbands had warned us--They're afraid--still, we were unprepared. Suddenly, to find ourselves the enemy.
— Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.
— Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
People in one of two states in a relationship. The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It's a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they'll say,'Oh, he's just in a crummy mood.'Or they can be in negative sentiment override, said that even a relatively new tool thing that a partner says get perceived as negative. In negative sentiment override state, people draw lasting conclusions about each other. If their spouse does something positive, it's a selfish person doing a positive thing. It's really hard to change their states, and those states determine whether when one party tries to repair things, the other party sees that as repair or hostile manipulation.
— John Gottberg
Fear is different
— it remains
Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.
— Raheel Farooq
I wanted to go in and tell them that, but George thought it would just be stirring up some trouble, you know, stirring up the cow pile. A cow pile may looked dried up, but if you stir it up, it can start to stink again.
— K. Martin Beckner, Chips of Red Paint
The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.
— Yanko Tsvetkov
By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is grounded in narrative or myth, Lyotard relativizes (secular) philosophy's claim to autonomy and so grants the legitimacy of a philosophy that grounds itself in Christian faith. Previously such a distinctly Christian philosophy would have been exiled from the 'pure' arena of philosophy because of its 'infection' with bias and prejudice. Lyotard's critique, however, demonstrates that no philosophy - indeed, no knowledge - is untainted by prejudice or faith commitments. In this way the playing field is leveled, and new opportunities to voice a Christian philosophy are created. Thus Lyotard's postmodern critique of metanarratives, rather than being a formidable foe of Christian faith and thought, can in fact be enlisted as an ally in the construction of a Christian philosophy.
— James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
— Rod Serling
If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.
— CLAMP
O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Witches, warlocks, gremlins, orgres - they're just words,labels. Haven't you noticed that when people are labelled, their faces disappear?
— Anna Fienberg, Power to Burn
He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods