Rush Limbaugh Quotes

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

I agree some people are biased, and I agree that they exist in a world of pure, sheer, raw hatred for anything they don't agree with, but I do believe they're also ignorant. I think they're dumb as skunks. I don't think they've been educated. They haven't the ability to hear and listen to common sense and understand what it is.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.