Impartiality Quotes

• He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self, Diversity, Siddhartha

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• Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Promise, Literature, Sides

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

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• Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Justice, Neutrality, Partiality

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• Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Perspective, Beholder

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• I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

  Will Durant

  Past, Men, Views

  "The Story of Civilization Part VI the Reformation". Book by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, 1957.

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• Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wisdom, Fun, Ignorance

  "The Speaker", December 15, 1900.

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• Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Justice, Stranger

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.231, 1st World Publishing

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• The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

  John Rawls

  Mistake, Doctrine, Faults

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.190, Harvard University Press

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• The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

  Clarence Thomas

  Jobs, Law, Differences

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• Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

  William Penn

  Hands, Clean, Ability

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  History, Wickedness, Levels

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mirrors, History, Judging

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• Let me tell you how to love all equally. Do not demand anything of those you love. If you make demands, some will give you more and some less. In that case you will love more those who give you more and less those who give you less. Thus your love will not be the same for all. You will not be able to love all impartially.

  Sarada Devi

  Love, Wisdom, Giving

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• Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words "impartiality" and "objectivity" is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. They've been taken over. "Impartiality" and "objectivity" now mean the establishment point of view.

  John Pilger

  Taken, Mean, Views

  Source: progressive.org

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Neutrality

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 78, 1799.

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• The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

  George Eliot

  Soul, Opinion, Contradictory

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

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• Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

  William Cobbett

  Perfect, News, Useless

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• Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Rewards, Merit, Flattery

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• But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of confusion, and my experience teaches me that it is better to hold a well-understood and intelligible opinion, even if it should turn out to be wrong, than to be content with a muddle-headed mixture of conflicting views, sometimes miscalled impartiality, and often no better than no opinion at all.

  William Bayliss

  Science, Errors, Views

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• Propaganda must not concern itself with what is best in man - the highest goals humanity sets for itself, its noblest and most precious feelings. Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve. It must therefore utilize the most common feelings, the most widespread ideas, the crudest patterns, and in so doing place itself on a very low level with regard to what it wants man to do and to what end. Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

  Jacques Ellul

  Hate, Pride, Men

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• Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.

  Isaac

  Stars, Science, Class

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• There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

  Karl Barth

  Ideas, Prejudice, Guarantees

  Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)”, p.469, A&C Black

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• In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Order, Moral, Argument

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.496

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• The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.

  James Surowiecki

  Independent, Long, People

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.41, Anchor

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• Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

  Michael Arrington

  Objectivity, Common, Journalist

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