Neutrality Quotes

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

Charles Patterson

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

George Eliot

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.

Max Eastman

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.

William Penn

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.

Elie Wiesel

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.

George William Norris

We think the Fed is hesitating. It still intends to achieve monetary neutrality but it is not ready to shed away its caution as it fears uncontrolled inflationary skid.

Valerie Plagnol

I'm not criticizing or saying it should or should not be that way. But neutrality is a major issue. Neutrality would level the playing field.

Cheryl Burnett

In exchange for that neutrality, we have agreed to preference Family First after the Greens in the upper house.

David Feeney
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