Gerry Spence Quotes

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

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

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.

Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Prejudices save time.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

There is, however, no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.