“Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as we have seen earlier, are often built-in principles. They are the extract which the mind has made of experience.”

— Richard M. Weaver

“Life without prejudice,” p. 12.
Life Without Prejudice (1965)

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