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Os Guinness on the Impossibility of Objectivity

The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends On It (HarperCollins: 2008), p. 20.

By the very nature of the problem, no one stands outside the issues and speaks with complete detachment, objectivity, and neutrality. Certainly I do not. None of us speaks from nowhere; that would be impossible. None of us speaks from everywhere; that would be incoherent. All of us speak from somewhere — which is our freedom and responsibility as well as our fate.