501 Quotes About Bias

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.

The fact that California was the most cosmopolitan state in the union, as a result of the gold rush, simply made white voters more susceptible to racist and xenophobic arguments.

If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all in perspective. Save the stress for when it is really called for, like facing a two-week deadline to rewrite a novel for a major house.

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past.

People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn't matter what form they take.

Americans claimed to be following a higher law, even when this higher law only turned out to be a personal preference.

If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.