Nikki Glaser Quotes

I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter suggesting, very politely, that I get correction therapy; and an email saying I should get back to my council estate and leave the serious work to the clever folk.

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.”

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

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.

All labels are offensive in some way.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.

I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

I think all gay guys should get married. I think they should have to get married. They should have to adopt kids because, actually, I'm getting tired of their happy-go-lucky lifestyle. I've had it with them being all happy and in shape. I could look good in denim short shorts and combat boots, too, if I had all day to do leg presses at the gym.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

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

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.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.

Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect - or the lack thereof - because I live in New Jersey.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.