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taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?
— Ravi Zacharias
You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.' 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger. 'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.
— Joseph Heller
It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.
— Joyce Meyer
We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man
— James Madison
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
— Dorothy Sayers
Acquaintance softens prejudice.
— Aesop
When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.
— Mother Angelica
The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.
— Joseph Brodsky
There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis, because it guarantees a complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost canonical status in Protestant theology. But now we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.
— Karl Barth
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
— Teresa of Avila
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
— John Tillotson
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
— Stephen Malkmus