Neutrality Quotes

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Becoming thoughtless does not mean, non-existence of thought. It simply means reaching out to the absolute state of the consciousness which is free of thinking. All of us need a thought to allow universal consciousness to express itself through finite medium – but in the end – the expression itself is infinite, whether visible or invisible

~ Drunken Mystic

It is very possible to acknowledge another person’s concerns without entering into their vibration.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

A ‘caring’ judgment is still a judgment. And any form of judgment creates blocks and stagnation.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

~ Criss Jami

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

~ Howard Zinn

You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.

~ Amit Kalantri

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

~ Paulo Freire

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

For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.

~ Ian Fleming

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: I don’t bother you - don’t bother me.

~ Yohji Yamamoto

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.

~ William Saroyan

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

~ Dante Alighieri

Each temptation leaves us better or worse, neutrality is impossible.

~ Erwin W. Lutzer

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

~ C.p. Snow

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

~ Criss Jami

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

~ Jorge Ramos

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

~ Mary Allsebrook

I don't represent anyone's opinion. Not even my own. I'm neutral.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

~ Nadine Gordimer