Quotes About Bias

The Christians and Jews eat defiled pig meat and swill poisonous alcohol. Buddhist and Muslim Sri Lankans blamed the wine-oriented Christmas celebrations of 2004 for the immediately following tsunami. Catholics are dirty and have too many children. Muslims breed like rabbits and wipe their bottoms with the wrong hand. Jews have lice in their beards and seek the blood of Christian children to add flavor and zest to their Passover matzos. And

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.)

If you've got a Mexican last name, you've got a strike against you.

The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it.

wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question.

On vaikeaa saada ihminen ymmärtämään jotain, kun hänen palkkana riippuu siitä, ettei hän ymmärrä.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

In wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question. IV

All news was propaganda now; you had to learn the special slant of each station and discount its brand of falsification or suppression.

Numbers may not lie, but individual perceptions of them differ.

The twin pillars of the multicultural doctrine are "proportional representation" (hiring and admissions must reflect national demography) and "disparate impact" (intentional bias is automatically assumed and need not be proved for remediation). Because the former is not enforced systematically and the latter operates without proof of bias and prejudice, the result is the rise of "thought crimes" that must be addressed to ensure reparatory government action.

does a man who makes his observations while he himself is a prisoner possess the necessary detachment? Such detachment is granted to the outsider, but he is too far removed to make any statements of real value. Only the man inside knows. His judgments may not be objective; his evaluations may be out of proportion. This is inevitable. An attempt must be made to avoid any personal bias, and that is the real difficulty...

It circled back to her looks, as most snide comments did. Surely a pretty blond girl had to be shallow and dim-witted.

My point is that every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives.

It's easier bein' a boy, 'cause when someone needs somethin' done like holdin' a horse, they'll always pick a boy 'cause they think the dumbest boy will be better at it than the brightest girl, which is stupid, but there you are.

We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life ... they are mean and they want to kill you.

Kitchens and women were both subjects that simply did not intrigue him.

yet that one thing—the color of their skin—would, in the real world, change everything. Sarai

Boys start life on one side of the equation and girls on another side, our father explains. The boys' side has additions and the girls' subtractions. Girls have been unfairly pushed onto the margins where human failings will harm them more. "That," he said, "is human history.