Bias Quotes

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

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.

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

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.

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.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

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?

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.

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.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

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.

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

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.

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

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

Good managers have a bias for action.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

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.

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

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.

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

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

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.