Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
GORDON ALLPORTReasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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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 reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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