“But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.” HelpingStoriesCausesPartyMediaRepublicanPrejudiceWingsBrandsAgendasBiasRepublican PartyRight Wing Author:Al Franken
“Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.” PassionInterestPartyEffortOpinionClassParticularPrejudiceAffectionAdvancementPledgeSects Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.” MadeStillsPoliticalPassionIndividualNationsPartyEffortPrinciplesVirtueSacrificeTalentStandardsPrejudiceRemainsBoresCommunionPolitical PartiesContentionBadgesCountrymenRemnantsMagnanimityRancor Author:John Quincy Adams
“The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.” PartyTeachingWorstEffectsPrejudiceRegardTendenciesUnworthyOpposing Author:Dorothea Brande
“The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many of its institutions have come to be accepted as a matter of course and have become a source of pride to "conservative" parties who created them. Here the believer in freedom cannot but conflict with the conservative and take an essentially radical position, directed against popular prejudices, entrenched positions, and firmly established privileges. Follies and abuses are no better for having long been established principles of folly.” LongMatterCoursesPartyPrinciplesPolicyPositionSourcePrideConflictAbusePrejudiceInstitutionsPrivilegeConservativeBelieverAcceptedRadicalFollyCreedsConservative Party Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway.” PeopleBelieveCountryWholeGovernmentPastI BelievePartyAcceptingPrejudiceEastGentlemanIrelandSubmitForeign CountriesNorth East Author:Bonar Law
“We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.” KnowsWorldCharacterTruthPassionPartyConversationFairsPrejudicePreservesGood WillDeviate Author:Laurence Fishburne
“False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.” InterestDarkPartyFashionPositionPrejudiceReverenceMaximsDoubtful Author:John Locke