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. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

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.

Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

You have defiled my honor!" Stilgar cried. "This is neutral—" "Shut up!" Idaho glared at the shocked Naib. "You wear a collar, Stilgar! " It was one of the three most deadly insults which could be directed at a Fremen. Stilgar's face went pale. "You are a servant," Idaho said. "You've sold Fremen for their water." This was the second most deadly insult, the one which had destroyed the original Jacurutu.

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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.

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.