Impartiality Quotes

“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
― Euripides, The Children of Herakles

“Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)”
― Seneca, Medea

“Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.”
― Paul Brunton, Healing of the Self, the Negatives: Notebooks

“ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.”
― Aeschylus, Eumenides

“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... but, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies

“A jury is always a more orthodox body than any defendant brought before it; for blacks it is usually a whiter group, for poor people, a more prosperous group...

Another lesson about the justice system: the way the judge charges the jury inevitably pushes them one way or the other, limits their independent judgment.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“Effective altruism is about asking "How can I make the biggest difference I can?" and using evidence and careful reasoning to try to find an answer. It takes a scientific approach to doing good. Just as science consists of the honest and impartial attempt to work out what's true, and a committment to believe the truth whatever that turns out to be. As the phrase suggests, effective altruism consists of the honest and impartial attempt to work out what's best for the world, and a commitment to do what's best, whatever that turns out to be.”
― William MacAskill, Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

“Responding to bereavement by trying to make a difference is certainly both understandable and admirable, but it doesn't give you good reason to raise money for one specific cause of death rather than any other. If that person had died in different circumstances it would have been no less tragic. What we care about when we lose someone close to us is that they suffered or died, not that they died from a specific cause. By all means, the sadness we feel at the loss of a loved one should be harnessed in order to make the world a better place. But we should focus that motivation on preventing death and improving lives per se, rather than preventing death and improving lives in one very specific way. Any other decision would be unfair on those we could have helped more.”
― William MacAskill, Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

“Remember," cried Willoughby, "from whom you received the account. Could it be an impartial one? I acknowledge that her situation and character ought to have been respected by me. I do not mean to justify myself, but at the same time cannot leave you to suppose that I have nothing to urge--that because she was injured, she was irreproachable, and because I was a libertine, she must be a saint...”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“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.”
― René Girard, Violence and the Sacred

“I judge people by their own principles—not by my own.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult.”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

“Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting. But the mandate is clear, his nature must be reflected on the earth. If he is a God of justice, people must see his justice on earth. If he is a God of sound judgment, that sound mind must be revealed in people who identify themselves with him on daily basis. If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe. If fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society”
― Sunday Adelaja

“[A]s moral philosophers through the ages have pointed out, a philosophy of living based on “Not everyone, just me!” falls apart as soon as one sees oneself from an objective standpoint as a person just like others. It is like insisting that “here,” the point in space one happens to be occupying at the moment, is a special place in the universe.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“When dealing with a married couple one can never be neutral. The hot magnetic power of each one's view of the other makes the spectator sway.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“[D]uring all my university years in the U.S. (doing a master’s and a doctorate degrees), I often noticed that young people were totally quiet when issues like wars and crimes against humanity in the Middle East came up, but they were very active and vocal when issues like recycling, environment, or global warming came up. While all these issues are important, the silences and complicity displayed on some issues rather than others; the selectivity of expressing resistance and rage are hypocritical, to say the least. I found that many choose to be active in what one could consider safe and convenient causes. How can I take seriously enraged rich and privileged students who want us to protect the environment by recycling a plastic bottle, yet it never occurs to them that all the bombs and weapons used in the Middle East are doing a serious damage to their beloved planet? Last time I checked we all live on one planet, unless these privileged students truly live on a different planet.”
― Louis Yako

“When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In the land of the seeing, the blindfolded lady justice is Queen.”
― Chad Almadani

“Don't think when Someone comes in your life, she will make you happy. I met Someone Special and temporary I feel nice until the day Someone Special left suddenly like she appeared. I realized I need Nobody. I mean, before I wanted So Much, but now I'm with Nothing, overcaming Everything, even Everyone.”
― Mario Fignarov

“Noi non possiamo essere imparziali. Possiamo essere soltanto intellettualmente onesti: cioè renderci conto delle nostre passioni, tenerci in guardia contro di esse e mettere in guardia i nostri lettori contro i pericoli della nostra parzialità. L’imparzialità è un sogno, la probità è un dovere.”
― Gaetano Salvemini

“Children love both magic and science for the same reason both are enablers. Both offer power and solutions to impossible problems. But then something shifts when people discover the instability magic brings to existence. It shatters the world that’s been built on predictability and logic. Suddenly the material, the countable, the definable is pulled from underfoot by the capricious, slippery and ego-centric nature of the mind. In that respect it’s the opposite of science, which remains dispassionate and impartial to the observer, predictable no matter what. The laws of motion won’t change because the scientist gets a speeding fine.”
― Jan Golembiewski, Magic

“The aim of therapy is not to help people transition through a sex change, and nor is it to try to persuade them against having a sex change. Neither of these aims is appropriate as they would indicate an overt or hidden agenda on the part of the therapist, who would not be in a position to help the patient, as their own political, moral or religious ideals would interfere with their ability to adopt an essentially impartial position.”
― Az Hakeem, TRANS: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria

“Whether a dewdrop is on a flower or a heap of dung, the morning light sparkles on it just the same.”
― Shundo Aoyama, Zen Seeds: 60 Essential Buddhist Teachings on Effort, Gratitude, and Happiness

“How can we humans claim ourselves to be superior to other animals? Is it because of the technological development we’ve made? Destroying one resource to create another one! Egotism is what we humans are fraught with… We boast of our intellectual superiority, but why do we have to depend upon a dog to sniff out a thief, one from our own race? Why do we need a dog for that? Why don't we just train ourselves and do the job on our own? The defence we produce here is that we don't have as many olfactory receptors in our nose as there are in a dog, and a part of a dog’s brain is devoted to analyzing smells. But then why is our developed logical and intellectual ability considered superior to their developed instinctive abilities? Isn't it ironical that a race that considers itself superior to others needs another race that it looks down upon, to sniff out someone of its own race? Doesn't it seem at variance with our own asset, logic that is, that we, who haven't yet developed a reliable device to predict an earthquake, consider ourselves better than a race that has an uncanny ability to predict future catastrophe? Being at the top of the food chain isn’t everything; even the dinosaurs disappeared, and the ones which were at the bottom still exist… I truly believe in nature's impartiality.”
― Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“As a prosecutor she had been able to knit a defendant's criminal life together that way when preparing for trial, bridging one step up to the next on the criminal evolutionary scale. And she would try like hell to get it all past the presiding judge.
Now she was the judge. And as a judge, she had to adhere to a different standard.”
― Tami Hoag, Prior Bad Acts

“(You’re good will outweigh your bad & you’re bad will outweigh you’re good).
There are those who are rude & disrespectful sometimes, but show love to others. You have those people who turn their noses up & look down at other people, all their life as well,
The ones who are rude & disrespectful sometimes, but show love to others, they have better chance of getting into heaven than those people who turn their noses up to others; thinking they are better than other's.
"You’re good will outweigh your bad & you’re bad will outweigh you’re good".
-MillYentei Orion⋆”
― Deshawn Yeldell

“(Your good will outweigh your bad & your bad will outweigh your good).
There are those; who are rude & disrespectful sometimes, but show love to others. But you have those people who turn their noses up & look down on people all their life,
the ones who are rude & disrespectful sometimes, but show love to others, they have a better chance of getting into heaven; than those people who’ve turned their noses up to others, who’ve been thinking they’re better than other's all of their life.
"Your good will outweigh your bad & you’re bad will outweigh your good".
-MillYentei Orion⋆”
― Deshawn Yeldell

“In the land of the seeing, blind Lady Justice is Queen.”
― Chad Almadani