Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
GORDON ALLPORT
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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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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