Quotes About Bias

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Because my brother liked Michigan, I liked Michigan, and by the nature of that, I didn't like Ohio State.

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one party line or the other. We've seen it in all permutations throughout history, and at the core of it is a certain insistence that what we want to be true is now true, and what we don't like is now false.

We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and there is openness and innovation.

Although our rules and laws are now officially colorblind, they operate to discriminate in a grossly disproportionate fashion.

Fox is described as a news operation, a news network, but it's also a political operation.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.

They're being really judgmental.

Eu nu aduc o colec?ie de m?rturii pro ?i contra, copios putrezite de impar?ialitate. M?rturia sunt eu; impar?ialiatatea o ignor. ?i eu nu practic simpatia sau antipatia, ci dragostea ?i ura.

The world is divided up into two parts, beer drinkers and wine sippers. In other words, the world is divided into beer drinkers and assholes.

Few people are logical. Most of us are prejudiced and biased. Most of us are blighted with preconceived notions, with jealousy, suspicion, fear, envy and pride.

But your scale still tips one way or another every day.

It is my contention that the population in general and male literary critics in particular entertain a negative image of women and their words, to the extent that it is widely believed that you don't have to read women's writing to know it's no good!

It is one of the curiosities of Western intellectual history that, during the last century or so, those with no serious involvement with practical Christianity—maybe totally ignorant of it or even hostile to it—have been allowed, under the guise of "scholarship" or innovative thought, to define what religion is and to reinterpret Christian teachings in the light of their own biased definitions and purposes.

Both the secular and the religious setting in which we live today is almost irresistibly biased toward an interpretation of these passages that condones a life more like that of decent people around us than like the life of Paul and his Lord. We talk about leading a different kind of life, but we also have ready explanations for not being really different. And with those explanations we have talked our way out of the very practices that alone would enable us to be citizens of another world.

Napoleon once said, What is history, but a fable agreed upon? He smiled. By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.