Jon Stewart Quotes

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

Nothing is too absurd to be believed of human prejudice.

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.

When somebody's different, it's so easy to dismiss what people say because of what they look like. They really want to judge the book by its cover.

Prejudice is ignorance.

It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And so these things are won in a day.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

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.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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 make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

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