Quotes About Neutrality

Most of the Iroquois, however warlike, suspected it was in their own best interests to sit this one out. But that was not easily done, for the pressures to become involved only intensified.

In 1776 the wording in the Declaration of Independence—"the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions"—played well to a white audience, but it did not win any friends among Native Americans. Even as the patriots tried to convince the Iroquois to remain neutral, they pushed many into the enemy camp through hostile actions and attitudes.

But it can be extremely painful to learn the fear of the Lord. It is death to our narcissistic egos and self-assured opinions and superior neutrality. But we do not change for the better by turning inward. We change as we turn outward and upward to the Lord with an awakened sense of his sheer reality, his moral beauty, his eternal grandeur, infinitely above us but relevant to us.

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

We are not a superpower like the U.S. We are a small and neutral country.

I'm supposed to be neutral when I do my job. But I'm a fan and I have my favorites.

Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they're not supposed to do politics.

Supreme Court justices should not be an extension of the Republican Party.

I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they're not supposed to act on them.

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

So to put it simply, forcing people to choose is not always wise, and remaining neutral is not always possible.

What brings you to Eversea House, Moncrieffe? Very polite the question, but strain pitched it nearly an octave higher than Ian's usual voice. His nostrils had flared; white lines made dents on either side of them. Opportunity, Moncrieffe said simply. And smiled the sort of smile that wolves do, when they have their prey neatly cornered.

There is a fine line between neutral and amoral. In fact, there may be no line there at all.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.