Bias Quotes

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." "None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves" "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed" "I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be" "I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial" "First impressions are always unreliable" "Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all" "When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination" "You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you." "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." "People are naturally more superficial with attractive people. In terms of impressions, there's a trade-off between competence and looks. We can't help making snap judgments, and beautiful people may have a hard time being seen as competent" "The biggest mistake most people make is to not see themselves and others objectively." "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." "History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice." "There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people"