Partiality Quotes

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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives. — Ron Chernow
If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the… — Robert Collier
It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to… — Thomas Jefferson
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our… — Marquis de Sade
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. — James Russell Lowell
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. — Solon
Partiality, in the sense that objectors commonly use the word, is impossible in the sphere of grace. It can exist only in the sphere of… — Loraine Boettner
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,… — William James
The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you… — John Wooden
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods. — Wendell Berry
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… — Goldwin Smith
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. — Herman Wouk
A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality,… — Epicurus
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that! — Roland Barthes
Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There… — Swami Vivekananda
With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not… — Thucydides
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness… — Dalai Lama
The sun and moon shine on all without partiality. — Confucius

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