Partiality Quotes

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

Even when “both sides” are presented in the media, seldom are the reasons for each side presented.

I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

History privileges no right side, and the arc [of history] can bend so that it loops back upon us.

Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Catholics, Lutherans, Reformed, Jews and other Christian sects live in this state, and live together in peace. If the sovereign, actuated by a mistaken zeal, declares himself for one religion or another, parties spring up, heated disputes ensue, little by little persecutions will commence and, in the end, the religion persecuted will leave the fatherland, and millions of subjects will enrich our neighbors by their skill and industry.

Men are not necessarily more zealous for truth than they are for error.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

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.

You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

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.

No one should be judge in his own case.

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

History is not the Province of the Ladies ... Little Passions and Prejudices, want of information, false information, want of Experience, erroneous Judgment, and frequent partiality are among the Faults.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

I'd say I am partial to women.

You can't just be letting certain people get away with certain things and not others.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.