Bias Quotes - Page 9

• While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Facts, Protection, Justified

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• That is like in my parents' generation, Walter Cronkite. If you were gonna go into broadcasting, if you weren't gonna be Walter Cronkite, you may as well not go into it. Even after I'd try and tell my parents that he was the epitome of left-wing bias. Well, my dad knew it. My grandfather wouldn't believe it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dad, Believe, Wings

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

  Raymond S. Moore

  Teaching, Home, Two

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• There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

  Ken Auletta

  School, Government, Engineering

  "Ask the Author Live: Ken Auletta on Sheryl Sandberg". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 1, 2011.

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• Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Facts, Males

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

  Gloria Steinem

  Media, Political, Males

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• That's stupid, that's bias.. they lied, they don't wanna gift credit for anything

  Michael J. Jackson

  Stupid, Credit, Tabloids

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• I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Gender Bias, Prejudice

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• Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

  George Ball

  Middle East, Prejudice, Problem

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• The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.

  Paul Goldberger

  Real, Design, Way

  "Ask the Author Live: Paul Goldberger on the World Trade Center". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2011.

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• I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

  Robert Darnton

  Philosophy, Ideas, Literature

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• The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Science, Two, History

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• It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

  Paula Broadwell

  Country, Wave, Stills

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• ... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.

  Adrienne Rich

  Philosophy, Past, Wind

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won't cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn't ask. And sometimes that's perceived as bias by people who've grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.

  Megyn Kelly

  People, Stories, World

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• There is a sense that science and politics are incompatible. I don't think so at all. I think it's important that scientists take great pains to make sure that ideology and personal bias and wishful thinking do not contaminate the collection and analysis and evidence.

  Rush D. Holt, Jr.

  Pain, Thinking, Important

  "One of the Most Famous Scientists in the World Just Explained Why Trump Is an Existential Threat". Interview With Emily Atkin, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2017.

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• Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Reading

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• We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Discrimination, Poor, Unfair

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Legacy, Unreliability

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

  F. LaGard Smith

  Christian, Religious, School

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• This determined bias against religion, especially Christianity, is clearly evident when viewed against the religious heritage of American culture as revealed in the Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 452. 1892.

  Mathew Staver

  Christian, Religious, Church

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• Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.

  Paul Vitz

  Christian, Religious, Children

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• I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.

  Mark McKinnon

  Thinking, Organization, Special

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• The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are evidenced by careful opinions. All guides to judgment available to judges are habitually consulted and respected. It has established a tradition of freedom from bias and pressures. It deals with a subject that is highly specialized and so complex as to be the despair of judges. It is relatively better staffed for its task than is the judiciary.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Independent, Judging, Despair

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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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