Bias Quotes

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews, who are lower than animals.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and they all stink.

Convictions are much more an enemy of the truth than lies.

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

History is written by the victors.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

The innocent are frequently punished instead of the guilty

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

People seem very arrogant when they say 'I'm right and you're wrong', but in practice we all believe we're right. We have a staggering arrogance in our own belief. That can be tempered by not being 100% certain; by being provisional. No matter what the debate is, very few people have the modesty to suspend judgement on a whole range of things; most intelligent people have an opinion and are expected to have an opinion by other people - but it always requires making a personal judgement that goes way-beyond your expertise. We do it all the time.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.