Peter Singer Quotes

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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

They taught me different was wrong.

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.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

When somebody's different, it's so easy to dismiss what people say because of what they look like. They really want to judge the book by its cover.

Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American.

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

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Discrimination is a disease.

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

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

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

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Prejudices save time.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

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

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.