David Mitchell Quotes

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

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 show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

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.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

I thought Christians were walking idiots.

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.

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.

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

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

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

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

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

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.

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

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

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

Prejudices save time.