People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
GORDON ALLPORTExtreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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