Quotes About Partiality

#1. The human being delivered to himself, without any partiality for elegance, is a monster.

Emil M. Cioran

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

G.K. Chesterton

#3. 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.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

#4. [S]cience, to [Walter] Lippmann, embodied a deep awareness of the irrationality and partiality of all human beings, which led its possessors to oppose the will to dominate wherever it appeared.

Andrew Jewett

#5. Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

Herman Wouk

#6. 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.

William James

#7. As long as there is the egoism of 'I-ness' (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards 'my-ness' (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?

Dada Bhagwan

#8. What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion.

David Hume

#9. My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality." (James 2:1) James

Val Waldeck

#10. 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 justice, where the persons concerned have certain claims and rights.

Loraine Boettner

#11. Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

Bob Marley

#12. 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

#13. Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

Roger L'Estrange

#15. 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

#16. 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, for all such things imply weakness.

Epicurus

#17. When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

Jean De La Bruyere

#18. The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

Confucius

#20. In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

Laozi

#21. 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

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

Solon

#23. No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.

Jude Morgan

#24. The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.

Allen West

#25. The Bani Yas Arab merchants lived mostly in Deira, on the north side of the creek that divides Dubai. The Persian merchants lived on the south side. The ruler, too, lived on the south side of the creek, in what often is seen as a residential indication of partiality.89

Michael Herb

#26. Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

Marquis De Lafayette

#27. Personality is lower than partiality.

Goldwin Smith

#28. When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

Confucius

#29. 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.

Robert Toombs

#30. But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

Jane Austen

#31. 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.

Goldwin Smith

#32. True freedom isn't limited by partiality or favoritism for one over the other. It's freedom for all or it isn't freedom at all.

D.M. Anthony

#33. 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?

Sir Fulke Greville

#34. These ideas are, perhaps, too far stretched; but still it must be acknowledged, that, by representing the Deity as so intelligible and comprehensible, and so similar to a human mind, we are guilty of the grossest and most narrow partiality, and make ourselves the model of the whole universe.

David Hume

#35. 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 true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#36. Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

James Gray

#37. 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.

Alexander Hamilton

#38. Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Matthew Arnold

#39. That's sort of what love is, I guess. A perpetual state of semideranged partiality.

Alexis Hall

#40. When fairness disappears from the public discuss of any nation, when partiality replaces impartiality, God begins to look

Sunday Adelaja

#41. How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Henry Clay

#42. Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#43. 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

#44. 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.

Billy Graham

#45. 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.

Goldwin Smith

#46. 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 power that is yours. It is not a question of the universal giving to you. It offers everything to everyone - there is no partiality.

Robert Collier

#47. All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.

Charlotte Bronte

#48. If we as Christians were to take Jesus's command seriously and apply it to everyone without partiality, then it would necessarily require that we demand the abolition of all governments wherever they may exist, as they can only exist by a continuous violation of the Golden Rule

Anonymous

#49. And Anatole, with the partiality dull-witted people have for any conclusion they have reached by their own reasoning, repeated the argument he had already put to Dolokhov a hundred times.

Leo Tolstoy

#50. Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#51. The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

Pope Leo XIII