Bias Quotes - Page 7

• Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

  Pauli Murray

  Sex, Black, Crow

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• I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. But, you know, enough of this seeking every opportunity to demean law enforcement broadly by making the accusation of implicit bias every time tragedy occurs.

  Mike Pence

  Loss, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.

  Peter C Bunnell

  Mean, Opposites, Hints

  Peter C. Bunnell (2006). “Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography”, Aperture

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stress, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not encourage one specific kind of person, race, or religion. Shambhala vision promotes a universality in relationship to basic goodness. All human beings are basically good and an enlightened society, at various levels of manifestation, can occur in any culture.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Race, Vision, Groups

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• The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes.

  William Kristol

  Apology, Wings, Political

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• The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

  Robert Bork

  Government, Alternatives, Failing

  "Abroad At Home; Getting Even" by Anthony Lewis, www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1985.

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• I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Challenges, Example, News

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• I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

  Nanette Lepore

  Beautiful, Cutting, Thinking

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• There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other `media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Dark, Media, People

  "CFIF General Counsel Talks With Veteran CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg About Media Bias". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org.

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• Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

  John Stossel

  Media, Talking, Water

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• The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Bias And Prejudice, Safety

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.108, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

  Chris Hedges

  Objectivity, Essence, Promise

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.76, Nation Books

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• As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does one good to see a straight, fine, honest fight where the best man wins. When a Liberal got in, it made him mad, and he said so,-not, mind you; from any political bias, for his office forbid it,-but simply because one can't bear to see the country go absolutely to the devil.

  Stephen Leacock

  Country, Fighting, Winning

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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Song, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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• There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

  Jay McInerney

  Attention, World, Factory Workers

  "The interview: Jay McInerney" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

  Charles Lyell

  Ordinary, Earth, Violence

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• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Powerful, People, Focus

  "Fatou Bensouda: “We Are Not Against Africa”". Interview with Mercy Eze, newafricanmagazine.com. September 11, 2012.

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• There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

  Burt Rutan

  Data, Trying, Littles

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• When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt to expose their bias, to look at their background. And then when you find out later that they usually have a bias.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Law, Hype, Climate

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior.

  Criss Jami

  Reflection, Wind, Understanding

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• Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Wall, Memories

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.68, University of Missouri Press

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• An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.

  Jon Meacham

  Important, Remember, Ideological

  "My Father, My President" by Doro Bush, (p. 218), October 2006.

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• The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.

  Jerry Springer

  Differences, People, Speak

  Interview with Rebecca Hardy, Daily Mail 'Weekend' magazine, June 27, 2009.

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• There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

  Gloria Steinem

  Racism, Hierarchy, Discrimination

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem". Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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