Favoritism Quotes

• We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

  Jodi Rell

  Faith, Office, Citizens

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• Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

  Richard V. Allen

  Powerful, Party, President

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• Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn... If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. What goes around comes around... Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn't predestine anyone or anything. We create our own causes, and karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance.

  Mary T Browne

  Karma, Revenge, Love You

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• Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Government, Natural, Harder

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• It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting - corruption and favoritism, mostly- endemic to the system.

  Iain Banks

  Looks, Use, Empires

  "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 1, p. 91), 1988.

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• Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters

  Roberto Duran

  Fighting, Way, Fighter

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• Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.

  Florence King

  Sex, Mean, Race

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• My hope is that digital technology will level things out more and that it will eventually eliminate favoritism. But technology cannot do it alone. The audience has to become more discriminating as well and not buy into every big tentpole movie because they have been brainwashed into thinking that's the movie to see.

  Lexi Alexander

  Technology, Thinking, Levels

  Source: piratetimes.net

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• All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Numbers, Support

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.118

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• What you sow, you reap. It's a law of nature. Network Marketing is perfectly aligned with that. You get truly, EXACTLY what you're worth! No nepotism, no favoritism. That's rare today.

  Bob Proctor

  Law, Marketing, Today

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• The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

  George Will

  Opportunity, Justice, Political

  "Tincture of Lawlessness". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 14, 2009.

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• For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

  Bobby Knight

  Awards, Rewards, Knows

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• I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

  Joseph Conrad

  Delicate, Foe, Private Life

  Joseph Conrad (1937). “Conrad's Prefaces to His Works”, p.66, Ardent Media

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• In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fields, Administration, Avoided

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.918, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.

  A. A. Milne

  Favorite Day, Movie Love, Today

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• If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Greed, Corruption, Economy

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.240, Penguin

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• Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Sex, Race

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• Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Mean, Political

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• The system happens to be Washington and the way politics works, because whatever it is, it isn't working. It defies common sense. And part and parcel of this, right in the middle of it is the media and their lying and their distorting and their favoritism and their efforts to impugn and destroy people like us who want to stop this mess that's been progressing in a deteriorating way for way too many years.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Media, Years

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• Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of government to harass or destroy their free-market competitors.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Dark, Fda, Government

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• From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Sex, Military, War

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law.

  Michael Barone

  Government, Law, Obamacare

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• To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the almighty. A really decent god-believer, far from giving thanks for the food and good health and fortune enjoyed by himself and his family and close friends, would surely curse God for his neglect of the hungry, the sick and the tormented, throughout the world.

  Barbara Smoker

  Selfish, Knowing, People

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• Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Savages, Village

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• I absolutely believe that those who come here illegally should not be given favoritism or a special route to becoming permanent residents or citizens that's not given to those people who have stayed in line legally. I just think we have to follow the law, I think that's the right course.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Thinking, Law

  Republican presidential debate at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, S.C., www.washingtonpost.com. January 16, 2012.

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