Cher Quotes

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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

We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

Prejudice is ignorance.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

They told me I would find it difficult to find work because of the way that I look and they weren't wrong. [laughs] I thought, "Well, I'll prove you wrong" because I genuinely believed that the world was a more diverse place than they perhaps viewed it to be.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine.

If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.