Social & Racial Sayings

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

Disgust is a deeply unreliable emotion that has been used to justify forms of discrimination such as sexism, homophobia, and racism.

The only way to be free is to be a slave to the truth.

Benevolence brings honour; cruelty, disgrace.

The gentleman is broad-minded but not indiscriminate; the petty man is indiscriminate but not broad-minded.

The white race is the cancer of human history.

The decline of the West began when it embraced moral relativism.

The blacks are a race of children, incapable of serious thought or sustained effort.

I am a slave of the wine-drinking sage of Shiraz.

Slavery was a choice.

The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.

I don’t give a damn about your white supremacy.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

We are lovers of the beautiful, yet with economy, and we cultivate the intellect without effeminacy. Wealth we employ rather for use than for show, and we set more store by a confession of poverty than by a vaunt of riches.

But those who obey the rulers it reviles as willing slaves and men of naught, but it commends and honors in public and private rulers who resemble subjects and subjects who are like rulers. Is it not inevitable that in such a state the spirit of libe…

It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of their being, in contrast to other races, less intelligent.

In a battle like Ireland's, which is one of poverty against wealth, we must prove our sincerity by making ourselves unpopular to wealth. We must accept the baptism of the gutter.

We all know that slavery was not a choice. So I just think that people need to understand that if you know your history, if you know the truth, you know that's just foolishness.