Neutrality Quotes

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Charles Patterson

We call for dialogue without preliminary conditions and in a spirit of neutrality.
Ismail Haniya

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

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

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

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
Arthur J. Goldberg

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

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Lajos Kossuth

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Bishop Desmond Tutu

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.
Colin Firth

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

The heart is never neutral.
Shaftesbury

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
Tom C. Clark







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