Jonathan Aitken Quotes

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

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

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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

Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

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

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

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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

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

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

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.

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

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

That is just the way it is with some people. They will get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.