Stephen Spender Quotes

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

I'm always a little happier if the court stays somewhat in the center.

You learn not to get attached to one side .... You take both sides.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

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

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

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

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

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

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

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

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

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

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

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.

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

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

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.