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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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 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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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