Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

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

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

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

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach — it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.

We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

Anti-Semitism is the hatred that never dies. Violence that begins with the Jews never ends with them. All of this is true. What's also true is that anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred in the world because individual people have sustained it in every generation. It cannot be defeated until we look these people and their ideologies in the face.