Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the…

Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon…

— Wyndham Lewis

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

— Richard Burton

The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed yet dispassionate,…

— Irving Howe

Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for…

— Sue Grafton

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

— Paul Di Filippo

“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

— Beryl Markham

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an…

— John Dos Passos

The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of…

— Joseph Conrad

The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of…

— Janet Malcolm

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among…

— Walter Savage Landor

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin…

— Sylvia Plath

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations…

— Lord Acton

“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”

— Anthony Liccione

The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons…

— Brian Koppelman