Impartial Quotes
100 quotes by 87 authors
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
— Winston Churchill
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It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.
— Sun Tzu
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's…
— Abraham Lincoln
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With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong,…
— August Krogh
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You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
— Guy de Maupassant
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a…
— Lucian
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The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don't want to be either partial or impartial.
— Frank McLintock
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To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant…
— Byron White
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
— Desmond Tutu
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Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
— Karl Jaspers
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand:…
— George Washington
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The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself.…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial…
— Brooke Burns
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The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural…
— Carl Jung
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I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own…
— Erle Stanley Gardner
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