Insightful Quote by George Orwell

“After all, one wouldn’t want facts and reality—not to mention the national interest—to intrude upon partisan politics, would one?”

— Robert M. Gates

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

— William Harvey

“In a Party member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated.”

— George Orwell

“There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fair mindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why…

— Herman Melville

“When you enter the realm of politics and ideology, the distinction between opinion and fact starts to cloud, and the stakes become dauntingly high;…

— Michael Hirschorn

“Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious to establish…

— Boris Pasternak

“But I really think that if we don’t start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it’s going to be literally impossible…

— Al Franken

“...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture…

— Walter Lippmann

“People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.”

— Paul Graham

“The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t mean merely…

— George Orwell

“All of which is proof that conservatives can have honest differences of opinion on policy matters, among themselves and with others—or be open to…

— Jeff Flake

Too many people don't look at things objectively and try to see the facts; they instead look at them through their partisan lenses and…

— Kat Timpf