Quotes About Bias

Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..

Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you.

Now, when Marilyn says this—If she were a white girl—it proves what James has feared all along. That inside, all along, she'd labeled everything. White and not white. That this thing makes all the difference in the world.

If she were a white girl . . . none of this would ever have happened.

game of deducing a person's character from that person's appearance is an old pastime with racists and with those who seek an advantage over the poor or the ugly, the disabled, or any underrepresented minority.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

No elevator of progress with wells of prejudices. (Pas d'ascenseur de progrès - Avec puits de préjugés.)

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice favour runs in favour of two.

Every man thinks his own geese swans.

Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them.

Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves.

Prejudice is weighing the facts with your thumb on the scales.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Ya sabes, el racismo y el clasismo empieza por el olfato.

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

You show me ten men who cherish some religious doctrine or political ideology, and I'll show you nine men whose minds are utterly impervious to any factual evidence which contradicts their beliefs, and who regard the producer of such evidence as a criminal who ought to be suppressed.

If you don't like the facts, you ignore them, and if you need facts, dream up some you do like

I suppose the truth is that when it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.