Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
Gordon AllportThere is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
Gordon AllportPersonality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
Gordon AllportThe theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
Gordon AllportThe specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. 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 Allport