A Quote by Lydia M. Child
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.
Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all theabstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called "Sympathetic Nature.
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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