Prejudice Bias Quotes

#1. 1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

Ruby Wax

#2. A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

Raymond Geuss

#3. No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

Elyn R. Saks

#4. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Carter G. Woodson

#5. What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict.

Charles F. Glassman

#6. The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest.

George Washington

#7. There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.

Helen Thompson Woolley

#8. It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

Lord Paulmerston

#9. A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.

Edward Gibbon

#10. Anthony Patch had ceased to be an individual of mental adventure, of curiosity, and had become an individual of bias and prejudice, with a longing to be emotionally undisturbed.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Ruby Wax

#13. President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

Harold Holzer

#14. I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men - even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.

K. Lee Lerner

#15. Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's tradition.

DaShanne Stokes

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

Charles Curtis

#17. There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.

Josef Joffe

#18. Bias and prejudice make me angry ... more than anything.

Rod Serling

#19. Even though the Judge would charge the jury that they should listen to all the evidence before they made up their minds, the chances were likely that 100% of them will have already decided if William was guilty or not before the trial was over.

Kenneth Eade

#20. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

Bill Clinton

#21. The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#22. We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

T. S. Eliot

#23. The limitation prompting folly was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#24. There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.

Rob Lowe

#25. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

Clarence Darrow

#26. Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

Michael Lewis

#27. Doctors, like all other people, are subject to prejudice and discrimination. While bias can be a problem in any profession, in medicine, the stakes are much higher.

Damon Tweedy

#28. I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.

DaShanne Stokes

#29. When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

DaShanne Stokes

#31. It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

Criss Jami

#32. The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Glenn Close

#33. Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

M. Scott Peck

#34. Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

Criss Jami

#35. In African American culture, class bias is the handmaiden of intraracial prejudice that privileges the near-white or light-complexioned person over the darker-hued.

Rita B. Dandridge

#36. Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

DaShanne Stokes

#37. Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

Alexis De Tocqueville