Quotes About Neutrality

have come to see that neutrality is the most extremist stance of all; without it, no tyranny can flourish.

Newspapers should have no friends.

The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

I don't like to put labels on anyone. I'm a reporter. I'd rather observe and describe and question.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.

I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Mail, by its very nature, was neither all good nor all bad. It carried indifferently messages both positive and negative, filtering nothing, making no distinctions.

This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.

A network neutrality rule could result in mere 'slaps on the wrist' or involve such expensive and difficult litigation procedures that no small company or consumer could ever bring a case.

Stinging words! You re critical of everyone," observes Iris. "Oh, not everyone," says Clara in an offhand manner. "Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born.

You're critical of everyone. Oh, not everyone. Only everybody who's alive as well as most people who are dead. I feel quite neutral about anybody not yet born

That the authority of the nation-state itself depended largely on the economic independence and political neutrality of its civil servants becomes obvious in our time; the decline of nations has invariably started with the corruption of its permanent administration and the general conviction that civil servants are in the pay, not of the state, but of the owning classes.

It's tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.

Nobody will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for any form of aggression toward any friend or foe.

We're making music to help people think and bring them together, that's our role; we're not siding with anybody

Things aren't bad or good. They just are.

What is there to think about? What Mrs. Watson and her friend do and don't do with each other doesn't affect you to any extent.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

God does not play favorites.

It was a little like Switzerland in World War II. Shells were bursting all around me, souls were tortured and I was powerless in the confines of imposed neutrality - hopes were dying.