William Stafford Quotes

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

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

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

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?

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

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

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

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

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

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

I wouldn’t say she is open-minded about her views of the Middle East so much as empty headed.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

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

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.