Quotes About Neutrality

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

Excuse me, but can you be a little more vague?

Captain,' he said. Largo looked up. 'Johnson had trouble with that lost fifty minutes at the airplane. Do you?' 'I don't think so,' Largo said. His expression was totally neutral. 'I know something Johnson doesn't.' He held up the folder. 'I know how slow you work.

niceness stems from neutrality and weakness

The existence of well-to-do little neutral countries is a pointer to what global war is really all about

A river is an appropriate frontier. Water is neutral and in its impartial winding makes the national boundary look like an act of God.—OPE

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

there is no politically neutral art.

The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

They're all special, but no one gets special treatment.

The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious that the nation was going to get into a war, especially since it was almost 1812.

err on the side of neutrality

Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do useful things whenever it is possible or necessary to do them, we shall soon be totally departed from the human scene, and forgotten, or remembered only for having disappeared. Armenians are too vital to be permitted to throw themselves away in neutrality, comfort, well-being, satisfaction, and so on and so forth.

Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

if I must add one word of criticism to the Vikings [it is] that they were entirely lacking in any conception of neutrality.

I think that at best the universe is indifferent.

En sí misma, toda idea es neutra o debería serlo; pero el hombre la anima, proyecta en ella sus llamas y sus demencias; impura, transformada en creencia, se inserta en el tiempo, adopta figura de suceso: el paso de la lógica a la epilepsia se ha consumado... Así nacen las ideologías, las doctrinas y las farsas sangrientas.

The strict separation of theory and data, the "brute fact" idea; the effort to create a formal vocabulary of analysis purged of all subjective reference, the "ideal language" idea; and the claim to moral neutrality and the Olympian view, the "Go?s truth" idea - none of these can prosper when explanation comes to be regarded as a matter of connecting action to its sense rather than behavior to its determinants.

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

E assim como eles, também os semimortos de fome não são de facto nem masculinos nem femininos, mas objectivamente neutros como objectos, talvez comuns-de-dois.