“The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.”
"The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", p. 430
Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)
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“Prejudice is the child of ignorance…”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
" On Prejudice http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Prejudice.htm" <br class="br">Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)
“Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
“Prejudice supports thrones, ignorance altars.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Vorurteil stützt die Throne, Unwissenheit die Altäre.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 65.
“Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
According to "The Home Book of American Quotations" (1967), by Bruce Bohle, Stevenson said this in an address to the United Nations on October 1, 1963
“If accusations fit your prejudices, truth is easily pushed aside.”
Gerald N. Lund (1939) American Mormon leader
“The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”
Alexander Cockburn (1941–2012) Leftist journalist and writer
More magazine (1974).
“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.”
Jasper Fforde book The Fourth Bear
Source: The Fourth Bear
