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 ALLPORTIt 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.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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 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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