Dispassionate Quotes
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As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure.
natasha kaplinsky— Her general reaction to learning about the fate of her family.
...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
larry wall— Usenet article (1992)
The law of England is anxious for the interests of persons against whom charges may be made. If a man commits a crime, there is a legal and constitutional mode by which that crime may be brought into discussion. He is liable to be tried, but though his crime may be as great and as aggravated as possible, he ought to have a full, fair, dispassionate, and temperate investigation of his conduct at the time of trial.
— Bayley, J., Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 162.
Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women’s history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as history, not as filiopietistic commemoration. The purpose of history is to promote not group self-esteem, but understanding of the world and the past, dispassionate analysis, judgment, and perspective, respect for divergent cultures and traditions, and unflinching protection for those unifying ideas of tolerance, democracy, and human rights that make free historical inquiry possible.
— The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (New York: W W Norton, 1998) p. 104
