Dispassionate Quotes

“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”

“The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.”

“There is something haunting in the light of the moon it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul and something of its inconceivable mystery.”

“If there were lies to photography, I figured, there was truth too, truths we’d never see if not through the dispassionate glass eye of a camera.”

“In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.”

“My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.”

“It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.”

“The gospels, never meant to report, butrather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.”

“our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.”