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“Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ delivers both.”
“Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.”
“Sadly, I’ve learnt that prejudice still exists in parts of the entertainment industry – I did an interview with a magazine once, and the journalist quite openly said they wouldn’t put a black person on the front cover because the magazine wouldn’t sell.”
“The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”
“Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.”
“Prejudice – a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
“There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.”
“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”
“We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.”
“I know we can’t abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”
“Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.”
“If a guy’s got it, let him give it. I’m selling music, not prejudice.”
“The air is the only place free from prejudice.”
“In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.”
“Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.”
“I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.”
“The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.”
“I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.”
“The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.”
“I’m a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.”
“There isn’t a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as ‘Pride and Prejudice’ which I often re-read.”
“Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.”
“He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.”
“Prejudice is a learned trait. You’re not born prejudiced; you’re taught it.”
“Prejudice hasn’t changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.”
“Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.”
“I’ve seen ‘Pride and Prejudice’ about 4,000 times. I’m not joking: I know every single line.”
“The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”
“I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”
“Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.”
“Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can’t read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.”
“We don’t have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.”
“All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.”
“Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.”
“I have only one prejudice in horseflesh – I do not like a white one.”
“The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”
“Race prejudice can’t be talked down, it must be lived down.”
“A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.”
“At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.”
“The ‘Pride and Prejudice’ with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home in Oxfordshire.”
“Once I started writing the screenplay of ‘Bride & Prejudice,’ I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.”
“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.”
“Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.”
“It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.”
“I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.”
“We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.”
“Liberalism, above all, means emancipation – emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.”
“I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.”
“A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind – the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.”
“Libertarianism, the political philosophy of rugged individualism, ought to hold a natural appeal to tolerant, anti-statist, free-trade conservatives who deplore the turn taken by the party of Abraham Lincoln toward racial prejudice, authoritarianism, and mercantilism.”
“Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.”
“Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.”
“I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.”
“I have no prejudice against male or female.”
“I don’t condone racism. I don’t condone prejudice.”
“In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.”
“There’s an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn’t disagree more.”
“IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.”
“Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.”
“There’s still a really divisive residue in our nation that’s called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.”
“Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn’t really have judgement in it’s purest form. So just go, just go.”
“Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.”
“Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.”
“I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren’t necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.”
“Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that’s what we’re doing.”
“Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.”
“There was a lot of prejudice towards Russians in Latvia. When I went to school, often Latvians didn’t like me, and Russians and Latvians didn’t like Americans, so that was a whole other prejudice.”
“I grew up reading ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ – girly kind of books.”
“No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.”
“Prejudice has no hold in this Republic.”
“The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.”
“Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.”
“I haven’t experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I’m not naive to what goes on in the world.”
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
“From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus’s strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum’s view of Modernism for decades.”
“Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.”
“In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.”
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
“If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump – a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses, she or he would likely be accused of extreme contrivance and implausibility.”
“I have a class prejudice – against the upper class, which is foolish.”
“Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.”
“Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.”
“The only prejudice I’ve found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn’t so much prejudice as just fear.”
“’Pride And Prejudice’ takes place in a similar period to ‘Vanity Fair,’ and yet there’s a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.”
“If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.”
“It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.”
“Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It’s one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.”
“There’s a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It’s more peaceful.”
“President Trump has harnessed the fear and prejudice that have accompanied every wave of immigrants in United States history, and stoked those fears to further his own agenda.”
“I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don’t have any prejudice. Life concerns me.”
“The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States – and in the rest of the world as well – is a long-term process.”
“I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.”
“Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.”
“Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.”
“Homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, they’re all rooted in the same prejudice: the belief that one perception at birth – the sex we are assigned – should dictate who we are, who we love, how we act, and what we do.”
“’Pride and Prejudice’ – perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book – is engrained in our literary consciousness.”
“There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.”
“Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws – to perpetuate injustice through inaction.”
“’Pride and Prejudice’ is often compared to ‘Cinderella,’ but Jane Austen’s real ‘Cinderella’ tale is ‘Mansfield Park.’”
“In some ways, ‘Mansfield Park’ is ‘Pride and Prejudice’ turned inside out.”
“There’s prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.”
“Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord’s children.”
“The denial with which many African leaders and communities greeted the appearance of HIV and AIDS across the continent in the 1990s is now considered a tragic mistake rather than a purposeful pushback against lingering colonial prejudice.”
“On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.”
“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”
“’Extreme Prejudice’ is the last of the Mohicans. I don’t think we’ll ever see a film made like that again.”
“There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”
“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
“Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.”
“I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I’m really into destroying myths.”