Quotes About Bias

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

The newspapers only repeat the side their purchasers like: the favourable arguments are set out, elaborated, illustrated; the adverse arguments maimed, misstated, confused.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

You got judged one day at the very beginning, and that was it forever. Nothing you could do to change anyone's opinion.

What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

The historian who puts his system first can hardly escape the heresy of preferring the facts which suit his system best.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Producers of TV newsmagazines routinely let emotional accounts trump objective information.

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter

you say that men are worse than women, as most people do, then of course we improve them by closer political

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

It's illegal to hire or fire anybody because of their race, appearance, or sexual orientation, but in Hollywood, ironically, it's the reason people will hire or not hire you.

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

It's simply not bias for a judge to explain her reasoning in a dissent.

We talked to a lot of psychologists who were working in business schools who put men and women in front of scientific reasoning quizzes. The women will routinely think they have done less well than they have done. The men will think they have done better than they have done. In reality, they have done about the same.

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.

It seems every white receiver has the same thing said about him: He's supposed to be good on third and five. He's supposed to run good pass routes.

It's always irked me that they always say the white receiver has great hands or runs great routes or is a possession receiver.

Looks matter a lot, and it has always mattered. We always judge. I have not only been on the receiving end, but I have also judged others.

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

We just do not get the recognition or the opportunity to play against these men, so obviously you don't see it that often.