Dennis Hopper Quotes

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

People love to hate other people.

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.

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

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail…unlike is normally situated at a safe distance.

With most people, strangers are not only enemies, but inferiors.

In time of political difficulty or economic difficulty the tendency is to lash our at some group.

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

Beware of bad Asians

Muslims have been hating us for centuries ….

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

Where differences of interest is removed, whimsical and unaccountable factions often arise, from personal favour or enmity.

It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society’s approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own

A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.

The few lighter persons in the community drew together; we were literally thrown upon each other, whether we liked or not. But when we began going about together and spending our time in each other’s society, a howl went up. We were organizing a "blue vein" society. We were mistresses of white men. We were Lesbians. We hated black folk and plotted against them. As a matter of fact, we had no other recourse but to cling together.

Viciousness and prejudice flow from economic dislocation, and in turn feed it.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Disgust is a very powerful tool for bringing about crowd violence. If a group can be dehumanized and made into the Other, the 'them,' to treat that group horribly is made much easier.

The trouble is that people are all too ready to jump to conclusions about anybody who they think looks a bit strange. They think you must be mentally subnormal.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.