Bias Quotes
246 quotes
"Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I"is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness."
"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?"
"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."
"When your family dies, that’s a bummer, but that’s life. When my family dies, it’s a tragedy and the world is unbalanced and biased."
"College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination."
"Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate."
"People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged."
"Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you."
"It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias."
"Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth."
"Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do."
"Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?"
"Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them."
"God doesn't listen to me too, but people have their suspicions. सुनता तो रब हमारी भी नहीं,पर लोगों को अल्लाह पे शक बेशक है"
"If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith."
"And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal)."
"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."
Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice."
"When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth."
"It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we may wish to skip the agenda of the description and embrace the wonder of the person."
"The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved."
"Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts."
"A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of producing proof require additional expenditures. No money, no proof - and that means no verification of statements and no truth. The games of scientific language become the games of the rich, in which whoever is the wealthiest has the best chance of being right. An equation between wealth, efficiency, and truth is thus established."
Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent."
"Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers."
Elyn R. Saks, Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill
"Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live."
"Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law."
"Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value."
"The power of love is that it sees all people."
"We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what the should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those stereotypes."
"It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself."
"Allow your hearts to be driven by principle, not bias. Love, not hate. Unity, not division. The fire of your dreams, not the rain of your sorrows."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true."
"Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak."
"If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms."
"it is important to stress that history is always constructed, not absolute or unchallangeable. Histories are stories about the past, and reconstructing the past ill involve elements of mythologising from the cultural, political and theoretical stances of both the historian and the informants."
"I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it."
"Electing a bigot enables further bigotry."
"Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all."
"He taught me early in life to take people one at a time, based on their individual qualities and never as a member of a group. That led, he said, to hatred and bias; that was what the Nazis had done."
"The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise."
"Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now."
"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."
"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."
"Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity."
"Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain."
"The first thing I am going to tell my successor is, don't trust the military men – even on military matters." JFK"
David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
"Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley"
David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
"Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second."
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
"There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of."
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