Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

National pride may be a valuable possession, but when it becomes consciousness of racial superiority it ceases to be an Imperial virtue.

When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

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

We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy.

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.

… vulgar motive of national antipathy ...

All Israelis think Arabs steal cars.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.