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Quotes About Impartiality

It might not be fair, but no one's to blame.
~ Philip Pullman
So bring on your inquiry. Present your case, and we'll present ours. Not because we give one single solitary damn for your prepackaged, predetermined 'impartial conclusions,' but because we care about history. Because unlike you, we do care about truth. And because someday your successors, whoever they may be, will have a record of what you actually do here and will revile your memory with all the contempt and all the disdain your actions will so richly merit.
~ David Weber
Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.
~ Doug Harvey
I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.
~ Megyn Kelly
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
~ Horace
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
~ Horace
It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so much struck with the beauties of this piece as I was. Yet I am not blind to my author's defects.
~ Horace Walpole
When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.
~ Brian O'Driscoll
I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
~ Jack Ma
The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution.
~ Brett Kavanaugh
But Death plays no favorites and makes no exceptions.
~ Jim Butcher
Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.
~ Krishna
am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...
~ Unknown
He who is merely just is severe.
~ Voltaire
I'm free of all prejudices. I hate all people equally.
~ W.C. Fields
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
~ Samuel Butler
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
~ Horace
let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
~ Plato
It is small comfort to a mouse, if an elephant is standing on its tail, to say 'I am impartial.' In this instance, you are really supporting the elephant in its cruelty.
~ Desmond Tutu
To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
~ Desmond Tutu
A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law.
~ Wendy Long
I would make sure that the values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values.
~ Raymond Kethledge