Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
GORDON ALLPORTIt 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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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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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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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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
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