Biased Quotes

“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We are all in favor of emotional intelligence. Intelligence can take emotion as a privileged counseling partner. However, it does not allow the emotion to take possession of us, besiege our mind, and subjugate our thinking. The emotion must regulate our thoughts, not manipulate nor substitute them. Our perception is only a biased picture of reality, and emotions are individual or provisional. Therefore, critical thinking and emotional thinking must go hand in hand. ("No monsters hide at this point" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“BLACK AND WHITE


I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many other
Religions and
Philosophies,
How do I know which
ONE
Is right?

Is it not
My birthright
To seek out the light?
To find Truth
After surveying all the proof,
Am I supposed
To love
Or fight?
And why do all those who
Try to guide me,
Always start by dividing
And multiplying me –
From what they consider
Wrong or right?
I thought,
There were no walls
For whoever beams truth and light.
And how can one speak on Light's behalf,
lf all they do
Is act black,
But talk WHITE?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“The power of the gaze of others to define how you’re seen in the world; it can shape the scope of your life and influence how you see yourself.”
― Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

“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

“If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“The process of making these connections is called bias. It can happen unintentionally. It can happen unconsciously. It can happen effortlessly. And it can happen in a matter of milliseconds. These associations can take hold of us no matter our values, no matter our conscious beliefs, no matter what kind of person we wish to be in the world.”
― Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.”
― Judith L. Alpert, SEXUAL ABUSE RECALLED: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate

“It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either as culpable seducers who were not really damaged by the sex abuse or as dramatic fantasizers projecting their own incestuous wishes onto the father. I will argue that this view pervades the false-memory movement and can be found, for example, in Gardner's work (1992).”
― Judith L. Alpert, SEXUAL ABUSE RECALLED: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate

“I like Wikipedia, but there are some biased subjects that are clearly controlled by vested interests.”
― Steven Magee

“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33
TAT: I want to move back to an area that I'm not real comfortable asking you about, but I'm going to, because I think it's germane to this discussion. When we began our discussion [see "A Conversation with Pamela Freyd, Ph.D., Part 1", Treating Abuse Today, 3(3), P. 25-39] we spoke a bit about how your interest in this issue intersected your own family situation. You have admitted writing about it in your widely disseminated "Jane Doe" article. I think wave been able to cover legitimate ground in our discussion without talking about that, but I am going to return to it briefly because there lingers an important issue there. I want to know how you react to people who say that the Foundation is basically an outgrowth of an unresolved family matter in your own family and that some of the initial members of your Scientific Advisory Board have had dual professional relationships with you and your family, and are not simply scientifically attached to the Foundation and its founders.

Freyd: People can say whatever they want to say. The fact of the matter is, day after day, people are calling to say that something very wrong has taken place. They're telling us that somebody they know and love very much, has acquired memories in some kind of situation, that they're sure are false, but that there has been no way to even try to resolve the issues -- now, it's 3,600 families.

TAT: That's kind of side-stepping the question. My question --

Freyd: -- People can say whatever they want. But you know --

TAT: -- But, isn't it true that some of the people on your scientific advisory have a professional reputation that is to some extent now dependent upon some findings in your own family?

Freyd: Oh, I don't think so. A professional reputation dependent upon findings in my family?

TAT: In the sense that they may have been consulted professionally first about a matter in your own family. Is that not true?

Freyd: What difference does that make?

TAT: It would bring into question their objectivity. It would also bring into question the possibility of this being a folie à deux --”
― David L. Calof

“Saying it's hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it's difficult being wealthy.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“[Walter Lippmann] applied the term “stereotype” to what he called “the pictures in our heads”—impressions that reflect subjective perceptions but stand in for objective reality. The word comes from the old typesetting process, in which a mold of a message is cast on a metal plate and replicated in the printing process again and again—mimicking the unchecked spread of ideas that we only presume to be true. Those ideas then dictate how we interpret what we see.”
― Jennifer L. Eberhardt

“Our purest deeds are those done subconsciously, Otherwise, they are biased.”
― Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out

“My Soldier's definitive of LOYALTY does not include being complacent with a biased or prejudiced leader amongst the Soldiers they took an oath to serve with dignity and respect.”
― Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

“A rational judge will conditionally be accused of being biased as and when it suits either party's interest.”
― Manpreet Singh (Raqeeb)

“The profession of journalism is an important one and considered by many to be a mandatory component of a free society. Will you get access to the brightest minds and greatest reporters for free? Perhaps, but if we hope to continue to see their best work, society needs to support them properly. Be a paid subscriber.”
― Christopher Manske, The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence

“PROVEN BIAS HAS COME TO BE THE VIRTUE OF A LEADER.

Bias has become the first qualification to join a party, and extreme bias the virtue to become a leader.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“You can't be saying you are fighting for the truth and you fighting for justice , if you are biased. You will be only fighting those you don't like.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“When walking into a system that is new to us, it can be more effective to be naïve to what others have thought, at least at first. If you are already certain of what the solution set of probabilities looks like, you lose some of what it is to be human... You lose access to truth, because the only way you will see what is true is if it is already a match for what you thought beforehand. This is a path that therefore cannot grow your understanding.”
― Heather E. Heying

“Doubt didn’t help me grow, or heal, or progress, but asking the right questions and finding answers to those questions did, especially when I was willing to listen to answers, ideas, and philosophies that contradicted my inherent biases. I was biased against religion, morality, and all constructs of objective good and bad. I didn’t want there to be a God, so I immediately discredited every philosophy surrounding Him.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“He stayed by my side challenging me with truth, even when I was a biased, naïve, and arrogant scoffer. He would love me into wholeness, through each step of the mess and mire.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Biases are inevitable, prejudice is optional.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator