Quotes About Bias

Upon comparing BBC News with CNN: Melodrama is something foreigners do.

what I call the soft bigotry of low expectations.

I should say no more. Because when we dislike someone we are always very ready to believe any ill of them

Some people have a great fashion of calling things they do not like yellow. You exclude the yellow man. You fear the yellow peril. I edit a white paper turned out by yellow men, and many white men turn out yellow papers.

Pero el tiempo me ha enseñado que todos estamos predispuestos a creernos nuestras propias mentiras, siempre y cuando nos favorezcan.

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.

She had long since learned that it took a fully formed miracle to get them to admit that a woman might be smarter than a man about anything other than fabrics, perfumed soaps, and tea.

Knowing is rarely a prerequisite for hating.

He just looked at her as if she were an idiot. Or a woman. It was Tillie's experience that most men thought they were one and the same.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

I think it is inevitable that we make Us/Them distinctions but there's nothing inevitable about who counts as a Them.

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

High malice is almost inherent in the profession of historian.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

The Heartland Institute is about as biased as they come, and it's funded by the likes of Exxon and the Koch brothers. This is the same group that took out billboard space to compare people who understand climate change to the Unabomber.

It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

Let's be honest: Everyone has got their opinion. It doesn't mean their opinion is an intelligent one.

It's an interesting thing about being a 'fem.' People automatically assume that I'm straight.

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

It can remind you of the bias of provincial New England, whose higher culture has been so exclusively one of books that it has grown incapable even of appraising the worth of other modes of expression

Time changed our prejudices, but it didn't change the fact that we were prejudiced.