Quotes about Bias

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

if you believe Jesus's main purpose is to provide a means of personal, individual salvation, it is all too easy to think that he doesn't have anything to do with human history—with war or injustice, or destruction of nature, or anything that contradicts our egos' desires or our cultural biases.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.