Quotes About Neutrality

spare neither sex nor age, nor high nor low, nor sacred nor profane;

Well, in my job, I avoid political commentary.

I don't like to get involved in conflict.

I keep my opinions to myself. I'm neutral - like Switzerland.

I have come to know Diana better than anyone else, so my sympathy will always lie with her. But I also have a huge appreciation of Charles, and what they both had to endure in that marriage. I don't think you can pick a side.

What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

governments and their official representatives will be strictly neutral on matters of religion: not hostile, not promotional, simply neutral.

As for information and educational campaigns, one of the main lessons from psychology is that it is impossible for such programs to be "neutral," regardless of how scrupulously designers try to achieve that goal. So to put it simply, forcing people to choose is not always wise, and remaining neutral is not always possible.

In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians had mobilized instead of negotiating; the Germans had refused to attend an international conference to settle the issue; the French had been offered the chance to remain neutral and had spurned it; and now the British were about to join in when they might easily have remained on the sidelines.

Elizabeth's true attitude was probably that of someone who hears two drunks fighting in the street at night: it did not matter who won so long as neither tried to get into the house.

Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

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.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

Power is neither good nor evil.

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

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

Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

This even-handed justice.

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name…. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.