Bias Quotes

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.

~ Dashanne Stokes

You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree to diagnose people. We all have crazy running through our blood and so many things trigger that. We all struggle with our anxiety and twisted issues. Defamation of character is not kind, nor Christlike. Because when you label people with self righteous vindication you open the door to the very idea that self righteousness is itself a disorder that we should all be afraid of. This doorway when left open too long gets people to pull away from Christ, not run to him.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Saying it's hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it's difficult being wealthy.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.

~ Dashanne Stokes

At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

~ David Pietrusza

Why is it that all the Christians I see on TV shows and movies are nothing like the Christians I know in actual life? The people I know have a sense of humor, aren't shallow, don't feel like they know all the answers, struggle, get scared, have hope, make sense, make peace, and hang on tight to their values because they're worth hanging on to. Have Hollywood writers just never actually set foot in a church???

~ Angela Wilhite

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

~ Harold Bloom

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

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

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.

~ James Still

Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data.

~ Charles Murray

Sometimes, it is easier for people to believe lies then deal with the uncomfortableness of their own fear of action. These type of people feel uncomfortable unless everyone is the same or God presents them with what is easy and obvious. It is a life long coping mechanism for the greatest fear of all--regret.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Everything took on the color of blood.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they felt that it was more likely to happen. The sheer volatility of people's judgement of the odds--their sense of the odds could be changed by two hours in a movie theater--told you something about the reliability of the mechanism that judged those odds.

~ Michael Lewis

Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky] suggested, is likely to warp their judgement of the future. We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination.

~ Michael Lewis

You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything all at once. That's when you need to stop and check your thinking...Beware of the delirious guy in the emergency unit with the long history of alcoholism, because you will say, 'He's just drunk,' and you'll miss the subdural hematoma.

~ Michael Lewis

Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the privileged' routine.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.

~ Dashanne Stokes

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

~ Dashanne Stokes

It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.

~ Dashanne Stokes

I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.

~ Lori Goodwin

The most disgusting human trait is bias because it ends of leading to propaganda, hate and violence.

~ Lori Goodwin

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

~ Cyril Ponnamperuma

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

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

~ Clarence Darrow

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

~ Dashanne Stokes

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

~ Criss Jami

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

~ Julian Seifter

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

~ Shannon L. Alder