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.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

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. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual