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Quotes About Bias

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
~ Henry R. Luce
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
~ Hugh Downs
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.
~ E. B. White
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
~ George William Norris
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
~ Duke of Wellington
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
~ Noam Chomsky
We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
~ Ronald Reagan
When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.
~ Susanna Kaysen
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.
~ James Madison
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
~ Jane Austen
The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia.
~ Christopher Booker
The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.
~ Crystal Eastman
I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
~ David Bailey
If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.
~ Frederick Delius
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
~ Lord Acton
Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.
~ Paul Tournier
Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.
~ Colin Farrell
A true party-man hates and despises candour.
~ Adam Smith
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
~ Andre Gide
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
~ Barbra Streisand
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
~ Bertrand Russell
If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.
~ Bill Cosby
There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'
~ Bill Maher
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
~ Carl von Clausewitz