Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
GORDON ALLPORTThwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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