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Quotes About Impartiality

I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.
~ Curt Gowdy
I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.
~ David Poole
If people bring so much courage to this world that world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
~ Earnest Hemingway
No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.
~ Alexander Hamilton
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.
~ Alexander Hamilton
spare neither sex nor age, nor high nor low, nor sacred nor profane;
~ Alexander Hamilton
TPP replicates similar language from past trade agreements that has allowed foreign corporations the right to challenge U.S. federal, state, and local laws outside of American courts. These tribunals will not meet our high standard of transparency and due process, and they will rely on weak impartiality rules for selecting judges.
~ Dan Lipinski
Mr. Best has expressed the desire to work with me, and I should be more than pleased to have him. His work has been excellent, and he is absolutely honest, careful, and impartial and has taken a great interest in the work.
~ Frederick Banting
Well, in my job, I avoid political commentary.
~ John Paul Stevens
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
~ Potter Stewart
A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.
~ Peter Jackson
The self-proclaimed advocate of impartiality does not want to commit himself to either course of action. If pushed toward one camp, he seeks refuge in the other. Men always find it distasteful to admit that the "reasons" on both sides of a dispute are equally valid—which is to say that violence operates without reason. Tragedy begins at that point where the illusion of impartiality, as well as the illusions of the adversaries, collapses.
~ Rene Girard
This even-handed justice.
~ William Shakespeare
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
~ Winston Churchill
We have stood apart, studiously neutral.
~ Woodrow Wilson
1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas….5. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims.
~ Woodrow Wilson
The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name…. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Elleri yüzlere ye?lerim. Yüzler, ?imdiki zamanla ?i?mi?, aptal, yabanc?d?rlar, an?lar?yla hiç uzla?amazlar ama ellerin resmi, hemen hemen dinsel, uzun sureli bir görgüleri var ve tarafs?z bir içtenlikleri. Kan?t?: aynaya hiç bakmazlar. Bak??lar?n? ve duru?lar?n? hiç hesaplamazlar.
~ Yannis Ritsos
The best advice will come from the person who has no personal interest in the matter.
~ Eraldo Banovac
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
~ Gautama Buddha
Oricine ?tie c? eviden?ele ascund întotdeauna sisteme. Nimic nu e mai p?rtinitor decât impar?ialitatea.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
This is my client Trent. I'm going to defend him vigorously, because that's my job. When he looks at you today, he has to see a group of people who are willing to be fair and impartial. Please think about those words—fair and impartial. Because, believe me, if it were you in this chair, or your mother, or your child, you'd be as desperate to have fair and impartial jurors as he is right now.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
Adults often think that fair means impartial, equitable, unbiased. Family rules, school rules, and team rules apply to each sibling, student, or teammate equally. But autism un- levels the playing field. It potholes the field. All things are not being equal. So our thinking on the subject of fair must change. Here it is: Fair does not mean everything is equal. Fair is when everyone gets what they need.
~ Ellen Notbohm