Fareed Zakaria Quotes

I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.

Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

This is 'Southland,' so we don't editorialize.

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

And Justice for Some

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

I don't know if referees look at me differently; you'd have to ask them. I hope everybody gets treated the same, but I know that it doesn't always happen.

I don't think it's right that there's one set of rules for one individual and another set of rules and laws for another individual. That's not the way the world should work.

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

It's equal opportunity for all, and we don't play favourites.

You can't just be letting certain people get away with certain things and not others.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

What am I unbiased about? Let's see. I don't think about being unbiased, at all. With the entertainment industry, there was a point at which I felt like I had to be not only pro-myself but anti-others.

Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.

My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as we have seen earlier, are often built-in principles. They are the extract which the mind has made of experience.

The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.

I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.