Quotes of Neutrality - somelinesforyou

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

- William Penn

“ Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ”

- Louis Kossuth

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

- Max Eastman

“ That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger. ”

- V.K. Krishna Menon

“ A plague o' both your houses! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Neutral men are the devil's allies. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ”

- Kossuth

“ I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse. ”

- Colin Firth

“ In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. ”

- Tom C. Clark

“ The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ”

- Dante

“ The principle of neutrality… has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. ”

- John Foster Dulles

“ Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. ”

- Alexander Hamilton

“ The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. ”

- Dante Alighieri

“ The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ”

- Dante Alighieri

“ I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ”

- Elie Weisel

“ If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ”

- Desmond Tutu

“ So let us be blunt: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government… ”

- Gary North

“ So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government… ”

- Gary North

“ Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort… ”

- Anthony Kennedy

“ The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. ”

- Arthur J. Goldberg

“ When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ”

- Desmond Tutu

“ If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ”

- Henry McNeal Turner
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