Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

I know I'm prejudiced and I know I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

All words are prejudices.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

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

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.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

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.

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.