David Douglass Quotes

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics

I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

I'm not a partisan.

Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

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

It helps to have “has beens” on commissions because they have no political ax to grind.

In this business, you can't get too attached to something.

You can't play someone and judge them at the same time.

I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if you're a pro, and you're a reporter, you do it. Whether you agree with the guy or not is just quite incidental. It doesn't count at all, really.