Jim Butcher Quotes

How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

I know I'm prejudiced and I know I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways.

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.