Bashir Assad Quotes

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Prejudices save time.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

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.

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

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

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

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

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

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.

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

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.

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.

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

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

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values that we hold.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.

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

Making false claims about somebody before you know them, and about a group of guys, that has no business in our world. If we're trying to promote peace and love, I don't think that has any place.