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Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love is Compassion, Endurance, Equanimity, Impartiality, Magnetic, Patient and Just (and Where Justice Is Not, Hate-Traders Profit) -- Elizabeth Lucye Robillard
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
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality. -- Michael Arrington
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett
The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost. -- Johnny Ball
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure. -- Ben Okri
Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality. -- Ban Ki-moon
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy. -- Guglielmo Marconi
As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. -- Gavyn Davies
The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own. -- Ban Ki-moon
If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society -- Sunday Adelaja
Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial. -- George Bernard Shaw
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. -- Samuel Johnson
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. -- John Rawls
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality. -- Jacques Ellul
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. -- George Eliot
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The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality. -- George Eliot
Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger. -- William Cobbett
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. -- Hugh Blair
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality. -- Nathanael Emmons
What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality -- Sunday Adelaja
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art. -- Peggy Guggenheim
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
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It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up. -- Subhas Chandra Bose
Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind? -- Sir Fulke Greville
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
My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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
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

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