People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
GORDON ALLPORTPersonality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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