Bias Quotes

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
Mitt Romney

Marriage, Great, Wish

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Abdul Kalam

Age, Optimism, Less

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Indira Gandhi

Happen, Small, Big

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan Edwards

Travel, Hard, Heaven

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
Augustus Hare

Good, Bad, Evil

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

Women, Parents, Different

Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?
Newt Gingrich

Find, Against, Church

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
Jean de la Bruyere

Two, Minds, Quite

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
Doris Lessing

Society, Young, Wonderful

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.
Thomas Frank

Media, Favorite, Theme

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
Martha Beck

Change, Mind, Ignore

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
Rand Paul

Seem, Careful, Networks

Good managers have a bias for action.
Tom Peters

Good, Action, Managers

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.
Rupert Everett

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.
Curt Weldon

Facts, Media, Print

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.
Rosie O'Donnell

Family, Children, Saying

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.
Gustav Stresemann

Peace, Hope, May

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
Al Franken

Help, Republican, Party

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
Tony Benn

Strong, Road, Middle

When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.
Eric Ries

Simple, Help, Real

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
Mary Douglas

Another, Idea, Culture

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.
Clifford Geertz

Important, Made, Quite

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.
John Stossel

Trust, Freedom, Bad

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
Al Franken

Problem, Liberal, Media

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.
Charles Curtis

Hand, Prejudice, Kept

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.
Andrew Cohen

Woman, Gender, Liberation

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
Sydney Pollack

Liberal, Greater, Arts

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
Jack Schwartz

Talking, Knew, King

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
Anita Hill

History, Justice, System

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
Henry Bessemer

Mind, Control, Others

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