Quotes About Neutrality

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

I don't comment directly on actions or statements of candidates.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

If you can't say something positive about humanity, then say something equivocal.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

When I first started out, I really felt like, 'I'm a journalist; I will be respected as a neutral observer.' And I don't feel like that holds true anymore. I don't think people respect journalists the same way they once did.

Compassion doesn't take sides—

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

He who cannot take sides should keep silent.

White isn't just a neutral color. It is so pure and quiet. Bold and conspicuous and yet so inconspicuous as well.

He tried to maintain a middle ground between those who were reflexively anti-American and those who were reflexively anti-Soviet.

The highest justice is to see without preference.

liberalism can't and shouldn't claim complete cultural neutrality. Liberalism is also a fighting creed.

Columnist Joseph Sobran writes, "The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism."35

You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.

My mum has always brought the third perspective. She has seen my dad through his ups and downs and I feel that's why she can give me the best advice because she has seen it all as a neutral person.

Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation.

You know the teachings, Mother. 'The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

To close the loop entirely, AT&T set about designing its own radio sets, presenting President Coolidge with one of its handsomer models.11 In a final stroke, such as to this day inspires heated debate over network neutrality, AT&T's new radios were engineered to receive only AT&T broadcast frequencies—and, not surprisingly, only AT&T programming.*