Quotes about Neutrality

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the centre of the universe.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

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

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

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

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.