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Quotes About Neutrality

Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny
~ Marisha Pessl
Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral
~ Anya Kamenetz
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
~ Debbie Ford
The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
~ John Paul Stevens
The à priori presumption is in favour of freedom and impartiality.
~ John Stuart Mill
In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care.
~ John Twelve Hawks
I like hotels where you can check in at an electronic kiosk and never have to speak to a desk clerk. I dislike a gold-wrapped chocolate on my pillow, a turned-down sheet, a bathroom towel folded so that it resembles a flower, or any other "personal touch" that gives humans the illusion that they are surrounded by a friendly universe. In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care.
~ John Twelve Hawks
Nothing in her inflection had changed; her expression was neutral, not hostile. And yet Alan felt as though the balance had shifted, and his footing was unsteady. He tried to get it back. "Were
~ Ellen Datlow
Where there is neither light nor darkness, there God can cast His reflections. That seems to you impossible, because you are neither light nor dark; If you were either you would know your opposite -- and the neuter state where the two join hands. But that is too deep for you and too deep for the world of twilight people.
~ ELSA BARKER
If it is true that God dislikes taking sides, I should feel no awkwardness in His presence, so pleased would I be to imitate Him, to be like Him, in everything, "without opinion.
~ Emil Cioran
Din tot ce-i fugar - ÅŸi nimic nu-i altfel - culege prin senzaÅ£ii esenÅ£e ÅŸi intensit??i. Unde s? cauÅ£i realul? N-ai unde. Doar în gama emoÅ£iilor. Ce nu se ridic? la ele e ca ÅŸi cum n-ar fi. Un univers neutru e mai absent decât unul fictiv.
~ Emil Cioran
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
~ Banksy
The British minister, making his own inquiries, was told that if British troops landed before a German invasion or without a formal Belgian request, the Belgians would open fire. Belgium's rigid purity confirmed what the British never tired of repeating to the French—that everything depended upon the Germans violating Belgian neutrality first.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
To Wilson neutrality was the opposite of isolationism. He wanted to keep out of war in order to play a larger, not a lesser, part in world affairs. He wanted the "great permanent glory" for himself as well as for his country, and he realized he could win it only if he kept America out of the quarrel so that he could act as impartial arbiter.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Government is supposed to be neutral on religion. It has no business telling people how, when, or where to pray—or even if they ought to pray. Government does lots of things well, but meddling in our private religious lives is not among them.
~ Barry W. Lynn
I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.
~ Beeban Kidron
It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.
~ Bobby Heenan
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.
~ George Orwell
You were told the big something/someone loved you especially but in the end you saw it was otherwise. The big something/someone was neutral. Unconcerned. When it innocently moved, it crushed people.
~ George Saunders
Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
~ George W Bush
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
~ George Washington
Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
~ George Washington