Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.
People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.
Sentiments of hate toward one another still permeate today’s world, and there is still much work to be done to heal the divisions of racial prejudice.
Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based.
The most moving scene for me in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy’s sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy’s look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth’s eyes.
Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.
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.
Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy’s heart beat for her, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.
Together, we will continue to build a stronger, more inclusive community, and send a strong message to those who spread hate: there is no room for prejudice in our neighborhoods.
I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and ‘Star Treks’ or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.
Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys’ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.
When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it’s because you’re fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.
Cancer – there’s no prejudice. There’s no age limit. It can happen to anybody.
You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology – it’s not only a great tool for democratization, but it’s a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
There’s still a really divisive residue in our nation that’s called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.
Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work – through my work – is really thrilling.
My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.
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.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran’s heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it’s a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.
First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character’s way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.
I do think the issue with trans lives – especially in the Black community – doesn’t necessarily lie within racism, but it does lie within prejudice and misogyny, specifically trans-misogyny.
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
I have so many references in my head – flamenco, classical, Latin, too many. I come in and put it all on the table, with no prejudice, and just start working, working, working.
On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
We don’t have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
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.
Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests.
I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.
When I was 8, I was reading ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and all that, not knowing it wasn’t my reading level.
I have a screened in porch, and it’s nice to curl up with a book outside when it’s raining, especially an old battered classic like ‘Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.’
You can never judge any music by their audience. That’s the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That’s always been first and foremost.
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.
As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.
I haven’t experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I’m not naive to what goes on in the world.
Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment – it can be institutional too.
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I’m likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
I see ‘Eligible’ as a homage, and I see ‘Pride and Prejudice’ as a perfect book. You can dispute whether this project is a good idea, but you can’t dispute my fondness for the novel.
‘Pride and Prejudice’ is often compared to ‘Cinderella,’ but Jane Austen’s real ‘Cinderella’ tale is ‘Mansfield Park.’
I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.
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.
Religion and politics hit nerves. There’s a lot of anger about a lot of things. It’s not easily resolved. I guess that’s what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
My sexuality is something I’m completely comfortable with and open about. There’s a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.
Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.
