Quotes About Partiality

I'd say I am partial to women.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

Death is only one way of dying; living partially, living fearfully, is our more common, daily collusion with death.

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

5 It is not good to be partial to the guilty and thus deprive the innocent of justice.

For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

You sh?ould? not have taken advantage of my sensibility to ste?al? into my affections without my consent. But as you have done it and as we are generally indulgent to those we love, I shall not scruple to pardon the fraud you have committed, on condition that for my sake, if not for your own, you will always continue to merit the partiality, which you have so artfully instilled into ?me?.

The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

Authors are partial to their wit

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

I would put no man upon extremes; but in this case flesh and blood doth make even good men so partial, that they take their duties, and duties of very great worth and weight, to be extremes. If worldly vanities did not blind us, we might see when public or other greater good did call us to deny ourselves and our families.

All of us react to our anxiety by "partializing" our world, by restricting our consciousness within narrow bounds, to areas that we can more or less control which provide us a sense of self-confidence.

Oricine ?tie c? eviden?ele ascund întotdeauna sisteme. Nimic nu e mai p?rtinitor decât impar?ialitatea.

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

Yes, wolf, I see all. And by all, I mean some.

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.