“I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.”
Concerning the Jews (Harper's Magazine, Sept. 1899)
Variant: I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being… he can't be any worse.”
Il se flattait d'être sans préjugés, et cette prétention était à elle seule un gros préjugé.
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
"On Prejudice"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1910/nov/24/relations-of-the-two-houses#column_992 in the House of Lords (24 November 1910). The Phrygian cap was a symbol of the French Revolution
1910s
“803. Antiquity cannot privilege an Error, nor Novelty prejudice a Truth.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”
Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 244
Context: Chinese were born, it seemed to me, with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naiveté, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them. To talk even with a farmer and his family, none of whom could read or write, was often to hear a philosophy at once sane and humorous. If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.
“Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.”
Lady Gaga on her Twitter http://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/15736252756