Quotes about Neutrality

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Skepticism is no more "neutral" or "objective" than faith. It has thrived in the post-Enlightenment world, which didn't want God (or, in many cases, anyone else either) to be king. Saying this doesn't, of course, prove anything in itself. It just suggests that we keep an open mind and recognize that skepticism too comes with its own agenda.

One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one

If you are God's child, you're either giving in to sin or giving way to the operation of rescuing grace, but your heart's never neutral.

For God does not show favoritism.

When we drift from a deep, intimate companionship with God, we become negative, critical, judgmental and recalcitrant. We resist the repeated overtures of God's love. Neutrality and detached aloofness eventually result. We become respectably unresponsive. It happens to all of us at times. The telltale signs are equivocation, vacillation and pretense.

Universities are the most anti-Israel mainstream institutions in America. And Westerns journalists nearly always use militant or gunman to describe Islamist terrorists. For Reuters, BBC, the Associated Press, CNN, and nearly all newspapers, it violates moral neutrality to label even a man attempting to smash a bomb-laden car into a nightclub a terrorist.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.