Quotes About Partiality

Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

A partial truth is nothing more than an entire lie.

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

For I never see the whole of anything; nor do those who promise to show it to us.

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

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

Nor does it unfrequently occur, that Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them, for a protracted three or four years' voyage in some other ship than their own; so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.

I thought it was very unfair. I thought what happened to Mitt Romney was very unfair in the third debate. So, I'd want to be. I'd want to have somebody that I think could be fair.

Is it possible to be totally partial?

life ain't fair. It's always slightly one sided

The 'humanity' that we bear is stuck in dividing grades. The affinity, the warmth in our hearts has turned partial accordingly.

What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.

In ogni innamorato c'è sempre una forza enorme che non ha finché è un uomo libero; ma nell'uomo libero c'è un'ampiezza di vedute che cercheremmo invano in un innamorato. Dove c'è molta parzialità ci sarà sempre anche una certa ristrettezza mentale, e l'amore, sebbene comporti maggiori emozioni, comporta anche minore perspicacia. (Via dalla pazza folla)

I am foolish in the way distance makes me feel partial.

God is no respector of persons, but He does play favorites.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

The heart is never neutral.

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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.