Tobias Forge Quotes

Hatred obscures all distinctions.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

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

To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.

I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

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

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.