Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
GORDON ALLPORTAs partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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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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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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