Jim Root Quotes

There is no human objectivity.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

I have come to learn that preliminary judgments are not judgments.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

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.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

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's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

I warn my readers against my biases.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.

I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.