Quotes About Neutrality

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.

Don't get too excited. In the end, it's neither good nor bad.

I had sworn to myself – an oath which I still kept in 1940 – never to write a single word that affirmed war or disparaged another nation.

The law is agnostic about truth.

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

Power is neither male or female.

Inevitably, you react to your own work—you like it, you don't like it, you think it's interesting or boring—and it is difficult to accept that those reactions may be unreliable. In my experience, they are. I mistrust either wild enthusiasm or deep depression. I have had the best success with material that I was sort of neutral about …

One day you will be taught that neutrality is more dangerous than side-taking, renegade. ~ Arioch, Lord of the Seven Darks.

I have no pity for them, but no hatred either

Not Going Out' is a pretty neutral sitcom - to quote the 'Seinfeld' thing, it's not really about anything.

It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

DEATH IS ONE OF THE MOST MOVING & TROUBLING EXPERIENCES OF LIFE: DEATH-IN-LIFE IS ONE OF THE MOST TERRIBLE STATES OF EXISTENCE: NEUTRALITY, BOREDOM become worse sins than murder, worse than illicit love affairs: BE RIGHT OR WRONG, don't be indifferent, don't be NOTHING . . . MANY POETS, MANY READERS live by poetry as people have lived by religion: BOTH ARE RITUALS, PATTERNS, [that give] special meaning to the most profound experiences of human life.

Because truths stand or fall together, it is not possible to put ourselves outside two webs of belief and assess their credibility from a third, neutral perspective.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. —Desmond Tutu2

neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen

I don't talk about politics. Not getting involved in politics at all.

I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.

Israel never interferes in the domestic issues of any other country. It's not our matter; it's not our policy.

Most people make themselves look bad. I just stand to the side and don't get in the way.