David Cronenberg Quotes

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

People pass a lot of judgment about each other in India, and that is a tendency I don't like.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

History is not the Province of the Ladies ... Little Passions and Prejudices, want of information, false information, want of Experience, erroneous Judgment, and frequent partiality are among the Faults.

Whilst, alas, upon such times are we fallen that a learned man seems well-nigh a portent, and erudition in a woman is a thing utterly unknown.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values that we hold.

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

… the term "equality" as applied in Mexico has a very restricted meaning in comparison with the meaning given it in other parts of the world. In Mexico it means that all persons, regardless of learning, preparation or ethics, are equally qualified for governmental positions.

We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

This country is rich with awful things to say about everybody. There's a slur for you and a slur for me - more than one. And because we're terrified of dealing with them head on, we've made them just as easy to warp and defang.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.