John Mellencamp Quotes

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

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.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

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

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

… without animus or partiality.

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

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

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

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

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.

If you're writing an impartial proper biography, you speak to everyone around them who really know them, you do not need, unless you're a minister of propaganda, to have input from the person.

I feel very comfortable about being fair to Trump. I think I've been very fair to him.

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

I'm objective because I tell the truth.

Politics can cloud objectivity.

I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.

There is no human objectivity.