Quotes about Bias

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Thou thinkest as man. In many things thou judgest as human affection persuadeth thee.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude.

Americans who do not see themselves as victims — of an 'unfair' or 'racist' or 'misogynist' society — are more likely to vote Republican. On the other hand, Americans who see themselves as victims of American society are likely to vote Democrat. Therefore, the Democratic Party and its supportive media cultivate victimhood among almost all Americans who are not white and male.

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

The fundamental attribution error is simply this: human beings tend to falsely attribute the negative behaviors of others to their character (an internal attribution), while they attribute their own negative behaviors to their environment (an external attribution).

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

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.

Human beings tend to much more quickly forget the good others have done for them than the bad others have done to them. That's human nature.