Neutrality quotes
71 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]"
"This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
"With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong."
"Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw."
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"And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined."
"Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist."
"My standpoint is armed neutrality."
"Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing."
"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."
"Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed."
"A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality."
"Neutrality is a tough call for the weaker ones."
"We have to ensure free and open exchange of information. That starts with an open internet. I will take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality. Because once providers start to privilege some applications or websites over others then the smaller voices get squeezed out and we all lose. The internet is perhaps the most open network in history, and we have to keep it that way."
"[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself."
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it."
"The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world."
"You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated."
"There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality."
