Impartiality

Impartiality (also called evenhandedness or fair-mindedness) is a principle of justice holding that decisions should be based on objective criteria, rather than on the basis of bias, prejudice, or preferring the benefit to one person over another for improper reasons.

Famous quotes containing the word impartiality:

    Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)