Social Bias Quotes

Liberalism: To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinion.

Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation, or a distinct group by its least worthy members.

This President [Ronald Reagan] makes us comfortable with our prejudices.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

When someone new walks into a room, the first thing we notice about that person is probably their gender. And the second things is what they're wearing. And based on what they're wearing, we start making certain assumptions about them.

My last name is good and bad. It's great from an opportunity standpoint. The bad news is that you're prejudged often.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Liberals pretend to believe that when two random hoodlums kill a gay man in Oklahoma, it's evidence of a national trend, but when a million people buy a book, it proves absolutely nothing about the book-buying public.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

We're a social species, and we want to get along with the people we like and who are like us. That's just good adaptive behaviour. We're more likely to accept something if we hear it from a friend, whereas we're sceptical of people who are not like us - which is what leads to racism, nationalism, sexism and all forms of bigotry.

When people think what is the most simple sort of human, it's a white man, and anything else that is added to that complicates it for people. It comes with all kinds of meanings and connotations. If they have a different skin color, that comes with a connotation. If they're a woman, 'Oh well, what do I feel about that?'

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.

When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.

The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o’ rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o’ poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.

I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.