Quotes About Neutrality

This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally as neutral arbiters of injury rather than as themselves invested with the power to injure. Thus, the effort to "outlaw" social injury powerfully legitimizes law and the state as appropriate protectors against injury and casts injured individuals as needing such protection by such protectors.

Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.

When life becomes difficult, allow yourself to feel the pain in the moment. Go with it for as long as it lasts, and then watch it dissolve away. Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.

French and Swiss villages existed side by side along a largely invisible border, but Switzerland did not wish to wipe France from the map. Nor did the Swiss beseech their sons to shed the blood of French infidels. Gradually

When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's a business, and it's run like a business. It's a business that is constantly in a defensive posture. It's been that way for seven hundred years.

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

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

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

but there are many languages on earth that are basically gender neutral, using the same word for he, she, and it, or not using pronouns at all. You've probably heard of some of them. They include: Armenian, Comanche, Finnish, Hungarian, Hindi, Indonesian, Quechua, Thai, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Yoruba.

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.

I am like the Swiss. I prefer not to fight on a Wednesday.

tolerance is] the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

The walls were a shade just off-white—the thick pile carpet was so neutral as to be almost colourless—so was the upholstery. Chromium gleamed here and there,

AP. : Peut-on proclamer que nous restons neutres ? De Gaule : Il ne faut rien proclamer du tout. Et d'abord c'est faux ! Nous aidons les Marocains en leur fournissant des armes. Nous aidons les Algériens en mettant à leur disposition notre aérodrome de Colomb-Béchar. Nous les aidons à s'entre-tuer. Pourtant, il faut bien faire comme si nous étions neutres. [Le 23 octobre 1963]

But this is—this is incredible!" Goldsmit stopped in an empty hallway next to a table with a vase full of edelweiss flowers. "Switzerland is neutral!" "Do you think the Nazis care?" I asked him.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.

It's no good getting angry at saarantrai; the hotter your temper, the colder they get. Eskar remained infuriatingly neutral.

during the Panipat battle of 1761, the Sikhs had remained neutral between the Afghans and the Marathas.

Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.