Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
GORDON ALLPORTAn 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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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