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Quotes About Bias

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.
~ Peter Thiel
It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.
~ Daryn Kagan
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Many textbooks fail to present students with both sides of an issue. Students are being pushed toward an education that demonizes free enterprise while advocating top-down government, deficit spending and class warfare.
~ Charlie Kirk
We embrace two-legged beings, and can warm to four-legged beings, too, but for most people, six legs is pushing it. Most don't need multi-eyed, antennaed face time.
~ Diane Ackerman
Judging the political climate in my state by walking around lefty Ann Arbor is like a polar bear judging global warming by staring at the ice cube beneath its feet.
~ Eileen Pollack
Gender perception can be a pernicious thing: Where a lack of warmth passes in a male, in a woman, it's deadly.
~ Maria Konnikova
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
~ Douglas Hurd
Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.
~ Paul Weyrich
She looks just as I imagined. Scuzzy blonde hair, blemished skin, mean eyes. A walking, sentient yeast infection.
~ Rachel Howzell Hall
Did you ever notice that women can seem common while men never do? You won't ever hear anyone describe a man's appearance as common. The common man means the average man, a typical man, a decent hardworking person of modest dreams and resources. A common woman is a woman who looks cheap. A woman who looks cheap doesn't have to be respected, and so she has a certain value, a certain cheap value.
~ Rachel Kushner
people only tend to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad. P.357
~ Rachel Kushner
But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was okay to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad.
~ Rachel Kushner
Peter Blood judged her- as we are all prone to do- upon insufficient knowledge.
~ Rafael Sabatini
we are all too prone to judge—upon insufficient knowledge.
~ Rafael Sabatini
I can't promise my child a life without bias — we're all biased — but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.
~ Raghava KK
We are all victims of people's perceptions, yet we judge others by our perceptions!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
For the varieties of bigotry spring from a common root. To tolerate one form, either wittingly or not, is to accept all the rest.
~ Randall Robinson
Racism requires lots and lots of dumb emotion, plus a dose of stupidity.
~ Randy Wayne White
The role of many youtubers news channel is also under suspicion and big question mark in the Farmers protest as they seem bias and sometimes tactfully defending and praising some bootlicking mainstream media channel and even not asking questions as they should about the credibility of topmost farmers leaders.
~ Raneshwar Sing Kishan
Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...
~ Ravi Howard
I don't care much for Canadians.
~ Paul Orndorff
Technology can be biased in how it's developed if coders aren't careful. There are apps that are clearly made by companies with no people of color on their team.
~ Kimberly Bryant
If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
~ Jeff MacNelly