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)
GORDON ALLPORTMany studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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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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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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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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