Bias Quotes
Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.
We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis
When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.
There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.
He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.
Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.
There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.
The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.
It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.
The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.
The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.
It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.
One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice
A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.
An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.
Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve to be heard and recognised, not stigmatised.
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.
I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?
There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.
I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.
Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.
Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you.
He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.
Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.
The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans
When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.
We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.
While most people love certain species to pieces (e.g. cats and dogs), others are more loved in pieces (e.g. cows and pigs)
Corporate media rarely reports the fact that police internal affairs uphold hardly any complaints from the masses.
How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?
Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it's a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.
Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist.
What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict.
When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.
There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.
I'm a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts - it's what we do.
A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.
When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.
Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.