Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

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

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

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

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.

Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, “It's not like I hate gay people.”

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

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

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?

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.

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

The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

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

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.