"Bigotry is the sacred disease."

Prejudice, Bigotry, Disease

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"Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected."

Marilyn French, American Author

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"Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Prejudice, Ignorance, Arrogance, Relationship

"People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Prejudice, Reason, Equality, Judgment

"While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Prejudice, Homosexuality, Society, History

"Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding."

Thomas Willis, English Scientist

Prejudice, Understanding, Weakness

"When people misjudge, they inhale and exhale with obstinate, stagnant prejudice."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

Prejudice, Judgment, Ignorance, Bias

"He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men."

Dan Groat, American Author

Prejudice, Weakness, Character, Judgment

"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?"

Christina Engela, South African Author

Prejudice, Fear, Blood, Health

"Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

Prejudice, Years

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"Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected."

"Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship."

"While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline."

"Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding."

"When people misjudge, they inhale and exhale with obstinate, stagnant prejudice."

"He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men."

"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."

"Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?"

"Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks."

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"Nothing endures but change."

"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony."

"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."

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"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."