Character Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

— Margaret Halsey

“I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about…

— George Orwell

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

— Daniel Goleman

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them…

— Thomas Jefferson

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must…

— Alice Walker

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or…

— Samuel Johnson

We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am…

— Owen Jones

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life,…

— Henry Wriston

But rather than trying to understand and rise above them, as leaders should, the [presedential] campaigns have often simply channeled these negative emotions. This…

— John I. Jenkins

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

— Alexander Hamilton

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard…

— Dorothea Brande

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

— Max Weber