Quotes About Bias

In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Men can read maps better than women. 'Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equaling a hundred miles.

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

What is surprising, even deeply disturbing, is the way that many individuals who consider themselves democratic, even-handed, rational, and free of prejudice, hold on tenaciously to a standard language ideology which attempts to justify restriction of individuality and rejection of the Other

innocent, as if they perceived only pre-selected facts.

People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.

People make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

What appears to be black on white to whites may appear to be all white to black.

You say monster, I say martyr. You say murder, I say self-defense. You say legal, I say defective law.

But then they were males, and therefore idiots about some things.

Your ideas of good and bad are just a certain level of prejudice against life. The

Your ideas of good and bad are just a certain level of prejudice against life".

Of all emotions, compassion is the highest that man can experience. When someone lives in compassion, not just love, only then he is a real seeker, because very easily love becomes attachment and a bias. Love can become a great prejudice against you, somebody else, or anything.

Many whites are even actually unaware of their own racism, until they face some test, and then their racism emerges in one form or other.

Now, I'll tell you another peculiar case that worked out differently, and which taught me something I have since learned in a thousand other ways. This was my best early lesson in how most white men's hearts and guts will turn over inside of them, whatever they may have you otherwise believe, whenever they see a Negro man on close terms with a white woman.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted. I can understand why men are afraid of them, as they are frequently accused of being.

he was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.