Victor Hugo Quotes

When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about.

It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.

The greatest compliment is I am accused of being a Dem leftie and a Republican righty. I am a pragmatist. I call it as I see it.

You approach the cases, not thinking that you have some obligation to win but that you actually have to evaluate the facts and make sure that you're doing the right thing.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man

To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.

I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

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.

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

People who are crazy rarely question whether they're crazy.

Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from ordinary standards of evaluation, can only corrupt this fabric, just as a contradiction can corrupt a system of logic, allowing falsehoods to proliferate through it.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.