Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
GORDON ALLPORTLove-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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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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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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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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