Christopher Buckley Quotes

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation, or a distinct group by its least worthy members.

I am against discrimination of any kind, but if I make snap judgments, no matter who it's towards, aren't I committing the same sin as someone who profiles?

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

Soaps are a double-edged sword. There can be prejudice from some writers and producers who feel you will lower the currency of their work if you've been in one. You have to rise above such ludicrous prejudice.

Discrimination is a disease.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

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

I think any stereotyping is too much.

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

History is not the Province of the Ladies ... Little Passions and Prejudices, want of information, false information, want of Experience, erroneous Judgment, and frequent partiality are among the Faults.

In many fields … favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

To assume that just because of someone's age or gender or whatever, that they don't pose a threat would be wrong.

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

I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.

As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

I don't think people should be judged for their background.

When you are different, that can lead to judges not marking you right because they think you look 'odd' - and that's in any competition.

I've had people hate me for my appearance. I think it gets me a certain level of empathy with the audience. If I was white and handsome and privileged, I probably couldn't talk about what I talk about because people wouldn't believe that I have empathy or I could be evenhanded and objective. It's strange.

I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.