Quotes About Neutrality

She was keeping out of the quarrel.

It's still hard for me to imagine that these gentle people have broken over a thousand years of neutrality in a warning against all of our kind. They seemed so proud of their benevolent history, so psychologically dependent upon a secular and kindly definition of themselves.

you don't have to bend over backwards, either, and go asking her to dinner or something. She does have a family of her own. You're supposed to take my side in this." "I thought you didn't want us to take sides." "No, no, I don't. I mean you shouldn't take her side, is what I'm trying to say.

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

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

Politics is not really my thing.

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

now with his peace offer on the table, it would be even more imperative that the United States not choose sides, in order to preserve its moral leadership over the planet.

America must be "neutral in fact as well as in name . . . impartial in thought as well as action.

In Wilson's view, America's neutrality was a reflection of strength, moral strength, rather than weakness or timidity. His other slogan in 1916, besides "He Kept Us Out of War," was "Too Proud to Fight.

noche es neutral, se dijo. No toma partido por uno ni por otros, y ayuda a quien la pone de su lado. A quien la utiliza.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.

I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

I love really simple colours at home - lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public's need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.

I try to avoid political ties.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant...' is Emily Dickinson's advice.... I've been struck by how often slant is confused with bias - as though having a point of view, a set of assumptions, or a firmly held opinion is in itself unscrupulous or unfair. And as though neutrality is the mark of fairness or truth.