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1. “I know that I'm not perfect. While we all have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to learn that it's an issue that we have to control, that it's part of my responsibility as an entrepreneur to try to solve it, not just to kick the problem down the road.”
Mark Cuban
Self-awareness, Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Prejudice, Solutions
8. “The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.” Arthur Schopenhauer Truth, Prejudice, Discovery, Opinion, Barriers To Understanding
9. “They could not understand that there is some few people in the world who do good without being asked. It were a hot day, I were a little boy, and ice-cream cones are always good. And that man just looked at me and thought I would like one – which I did. That is one reason why I do not hate all white folks today because some white folks will do good without being asked or hauled up before the Supreme Court to have a law promulgated against them.” Langston Hughes Kindness, Racial Relations, Childhood Memory, Prejudice, Human Goodness
15. “Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a determination necessarily arises from an obsession. It constitutes an utterly sterile effort to get rid of it. In such a case the light of attention is the only thing which is effective, and it is not compatible with a polemical intention.” Simone Weil Prejudice Fight, Sterile Efforts, Effective Attention, Prejudice, Obsession, Attention
18. “You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.” Orson Scott Card Culture, Supremacy, Arrogance, Prejudice, Cultural Blindness, Missed Opportunities
22. “I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn’t dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don’t tell me judges don’t try to prejudice juries.” Harper Lee Justice, Truth, Courtroom, Prejudice, Integrity, Wisdom
27. “It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love, Prejudice, Courage, Transformation, Class Struggle, Grace
30. “If you are observing someone you naturally dislike, or who reminds you of someone unpleasant in your past, you will tend to see almost any cue as unfriendly or hostile. You will do the opposite for people you like. In these exercises you must strive to subtract your personal preferences and prejudices about people.” Robert Greene Unbiased Observation, Personal Preferences, Prejudice Reduction, Observation, Bias, Prejudice
Prejudice Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “I know that I'm not perfect. While we all have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to learn that it's an issue that we have to control, that it's part of my responsibility as an entrepreneur to try to solve it, not just to kick the problem down the road.”
Mark Cuban Self-awareness, Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Prejudice, Solutions
8. “The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Truth, Prejudice, Discovery, Opinion, Barriers To Understanding
9. “They could not understand that there is some few people in the world who do good without being asked. It were a hot day, I were a little boy, and ice-cream cones are always good. And that man just looked at me and thought I would like one – which I did. That is one reason why I do not hate all white folks today because some white folks will do good without being asked or hauled up before the Supreme Court to have a law promulgated against them.”
Langston Hughes Kindness, Racial Relations, Childhood Memory, Prejudice, Human Goodness
15. “Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a determination necessarily arises from an obsession. It constitutes an utterly sterile effort to get rid of it. In such a case the light of attention is the only thing which is effective, and it is not compatible with a polemical intention.”
Simone Weil Prejudice Fight, Sterile Efforts, Effective Attention, Prejudice, Obsession, Attention
18. “You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.”
Orson Scott Card Culture, Supremacy, Arrogance, Prejudice, Cultural Blindness, Missed Opportunities
22. “I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn’t dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don’t tell me judges don’t try to prejudice juries.”
Harper Lee Justice, Truth, Courtroom, Prejudice, Integrity, Wisdom
27. “It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love, Prejudice, Courage, Transformation, Class Struggle, Grace
30. “If you are observing someone you naturally dislike, or who reminds you of someone unpleasant in your past, you will tend to see almost any cue as unfriendly or hostile. You will do the opposite for people you like. In these exercises you must strive to subtract your personal preferences and prejudices about people.”
Robert Greene Unbiased Observation, Personal Preferences, Prejudice Reduction, Observation, Bias, Prejudice
