Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Episode from a Practice or A Doctor's Visit (1898)
“Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back?”
Your Life What are your prejudices? (1939).
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Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Michael Ignatieff, "Why Are We In Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?)", New York Times, 5 September, 2003.
2000s
“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.”
Ludwig Börne (1786–1837) German writer
Variant: Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Thomas Jefferson http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2127#lf1431-10_head_179 (22 January 1825). The section in italics is often attached to fragments from an earlier letter from Adams to Jefferson (17 January 1820) <br class="br">1820s <br class="br">Context: The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton’s universe and Herschell’s universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
“Who says wethe walls back up? You're roaches, we're Raid. We'll get rid of you eventually.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
NOW interview (2004)
Context: You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely. All the idiots that keep coming into the world and wrecking people's lives.
And it is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage, okay? That you lose hope — I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day — I'm pretty good — I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk. But, I'm losing hope.