Jessica Mitford Quotes

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

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.

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

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

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.

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

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

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

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

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.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

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

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

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.

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

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

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.