The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Reasoning against prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.
-Mildmay

First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.
-General Iberico Saint Jean