Bias Quotes

“I mean, we all carry some form of that bias, right? I mean, it might be based on age, it might be based on gender, it might be based on sexuality, and it's certainly based on race.”

“Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.”

“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”

“When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.”

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions, no other guide but their own will. This complete independence, which they constantly enjoy towards their equals and in the intercourse of private life, tends to make them look upon all authority with a jealous eye, and speedily suggests to them the notion and the love of political freedom. Men living at such times have a natural bias to free institutions. Take any one of them at a venture, and search if you can his most deep-seated instincts; and you will find that, of all governments, he will soonest conceive and most highly value that government whose head he has himself elected, and whose administration he may control.”

“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.”

“The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.”

“The power of love is that it sees all people.”

“White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.”

“I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.”

“The Obama Justice Department put more police departments under federal control for alleged systemic bias than any previous administration had.”

“Behavior makes sense from the actor's perception or else the actor wouldn't do it. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, you know, today I'm going to be conforming, mistaken, nasty, and so on.”

“Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.”

“Without a doubt, there are more men out there who have been falsely accused and convicted of crimes they did not commit because of legal and cultural bias against men, and, in a way, Johnny Depp has become their representative.”

“No one is ever bias-free, but some people let their biases influence their actions more than others.”