Quotes About Cultural Biases

#1. There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

Sonia Sotomayor

#2. Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).

Stephen Jay Gould

#3. Despite how impressive many of my teachers were, they were undoubtedly human and susceptible to the same cultural biases and physical infirmities that define the lives of ordinary people.

Sam Harris

#4. The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Edward Bellamy

#5. I think that it's nice when someone can go and look more exotic and do the girl-next-door thing as well.

Gigi Hadid

#6. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

Hillary Clinton

#7. He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth.

Jerzy Kosinski

#8. Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#9. I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.

A. J. Jacobs

#10. We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

Jane McGonigal

#11. We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#12. One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words.

Bret McKenzie

#13. Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.

Cassandra Duffy

#14. I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

Charles Koch

#15. A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

Terry Pratchett

#16. The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice ...

Henry Lindell

#17. There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#18. Now he is gone
as you are gone.
But he belongs to me like lost baggage.

Anne Sexton

#19. In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

Samuel P. Huntington