Bias Quotes - Page 10

• Just black executives have a bias against older artists. We don't respect our elders. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.

  KRS-One

  Artist, People, Black

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Children, Truth

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Passion, May

  Thomas Jefferson, Barbara B. Oberg (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 29: 1 March 1796 to 31 December 1797”, p.424, Princeton University Press

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• North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Home, Peculiar, Social

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• There is a decided bias against things Christian.

  Gary DeMar

  Christian, Religious, Decided

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• Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society approaches church-state issues. However, there is persuasive evidence that among some influential segments of the population, there is a very real antireligious strain.

  Stephen V Monsma

  Christian, Running, Religious

  Stephen V. Monsma (1995). “Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Why do you think people don't think that homosexual parents are good? You don't know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don't let these children suffer without families because of your bias.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Children, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,
  And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
  With windlasses and with assays of bias,
  By indirections find directions out.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Bait, Carp

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; but it has one great merit that overlaps even these. The great and very obvious merit of the English aristocracy is that nobody could possibly take it seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Patriotic, Thinking

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VI. "The Paradoxes of Christianity", 1908.

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• All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

  Carl L. Becker

  Determination, Persistence, History

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• My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.

  Geena Davis

  Girl, Kids, Thinking

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

  John Stuart Mill

  Evil, Citizens, States

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.193

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• At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters in this world, so I had a strong bias toward actually writing, and worrying about research later. In other words, I was afraid that I'd devote a year or two of my life to grinding through Kant and Husserl, then discover that there simply was no novel to be written here.

  Neal Stephenson

  Strong, Character, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.

  Amanda Ripley

  Government, Panic, Emergencies

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias.

  Kim Him-chan

  Agency, Idols, Training

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• Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.

  Michael J Cohen

  Thinking, Perception, Labels

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• It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Circles, Differences

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.423

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• By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence.

  Eric Alterman

  Powerful, Military, America

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• In many ways, the physical dimension of life becomes less important as the soul enlarges. In my late twenties, I was astonished by the elders with whom I began to spend most of my professional time - how vivacious so many of them were, once I looked beyond my negative bias.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Soul, Important, Twenties

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.

  Ruth Benedict

  Example, Generations, Culture

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• Topical-sketch writing were incredibly rational and well reasoned: don't do a joke if the subject doesn't deserve it. An ad hominem attack on someone might get you a cheap laugh, but it doesn't earn you any long-term trust. The biggest rule was: you attack whoever's in power. Don't bring your personal bias to the table.

  Michael Schur

  Writing, Long, Laughing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Media, Oil

  "CNN Reliable Sources", www.cnn.com. September 7, 2003.

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• There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

  H. G. Wells

  Believe, Men, Order

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• A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

  E. B. White

  Escaping, Self, Style

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• That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Storm, Calling, Helping

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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