Quotes About Neutrality

God has no favorites.

Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

July 23, 1962: The United States joins thirteen other nations at Geneva in signing the "Declaration on the Neutrality of Laos." CIA and Pentagon opponents regard Kennedy's negotiation of the Laotian agreement as surrender to the Communists. They undermine it by supporting General Phoumi's violations of the cease-fire.

People thought tolerance was the opposite of intolerance. Whereas in fact it was some meaningless neutrality. A child, any child, growing up, discovering herself and the nature of her deepest, most native desires - what use was tolerance to a child? It was encouragement she needed, encouragement first to be, then to love, herself. Or himself, whichever.

The attitude of neutrality allows grandparents to listen to the teenager without the emotional baggage their parents carry. And if we listen carefully, we may be able to glimpse what the teenager is going through.

por sentir que já adquiriu direitos com o passar dos meses e dos anos iguais, pela simples acumulação de tempo, como se algo tão insignificante e tão neutro como a sucessão de dias supusesse um mérito para aquele que os atravessa, ou porventura o que os aguenta sem fugir nem se render.

I never get involved in anything and I don't make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral. We must not be parsimonious, as long as we are not shooting, we are not spending one tenth as much.

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are.

To be neutral13 between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.