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Quotes About Neutrality

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.
~ Stockwell Day
Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law.
~ Wendy Long
We should trust judges to be independent, investigators to be independent.
~ Eric Swalwell
Well honestly, I do stay away from being political, especially about Trump. It's just one of those things.
~ Bianca Del Rio
In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
~ Abu Bakr
Keeping politics out of the courtroom is a goal every state aspires to achieve.
~ Amul Thapar
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Until you stop being governed by your emotions you cannot be impartial.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
~ Bruce Lee
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.
~ Bruce Lee
To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.
~ Bruce Lee
Thus for Michael Foucault, a leading postmodernist writer, "truth" is the result of power-relationships that masquerade as neutral means of enforcing order.
~ Bryan A. Follis
Science is not a neutral or innocent commodity which can be employed as a convenience by people wishing to partake only of the West's material power. Rather it is spiritually corrosive, burning away ancient authorities and traditions. It cannot really co-exist with anything.
~ Bryan Appleyard
You can't be neutral on a moving train," I would tell them. Some were baffled by the metaphor, especially if they took it literally and tried to dissect its meaning. Others immediately saw what I meant: that events are already moving in certain deadly directions, and to be neutral means to accept that.
~ Howard Zinn
Charles Beard warned us that governments—including the government of the United States—are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their constitutions are intended to serve these interests.
~ Howard Zinn
In modern times, exploitation is disguised—it is accomplished by law, which has the look of neutrality and fairness.
~ Howard Zinn
For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.
~ Ian Fleming
the Soviet leader had hoped that the U.S. president would issue a formal request for the USSR's participation in the East Asian war, providing a pretense for the Russians to abrogate their neutrality pact with Japan.
~ Ian W. Toll
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
~ Desmond Tutu
On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
~ Walter Cronkite
To be honest, the Nidahas Trophy has taught me too many things. Actually, I learnt to how to stay neutral after that.
~ Vijay Shankar
Neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesn't really serve us in the age of Trump.
~ Jim Acosta
By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.
~ Linus Torvalds
A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau