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The greatest friend of truth is Time her greatest enemy is Prejudice and her constant companion is Humility.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers but by preconceived opinion by prejudice.

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

You know I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

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.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them and I say to myself There's one more argument for birth control.

Science almost from its beginnings has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples equally and free of threats.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love no hate no prejudice no bigotry and more unity peace and understanding. Period.

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

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race creed and color we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

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.

Most men when they think they are thinking are merely rearranging their prejudices.

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that without prejudice to existing institutions the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

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