Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTExtreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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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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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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