Quotes of: Neutrality Keyword

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

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

When in doubt who will win, be neutral.

Swiss

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Max Eastman

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

Adam Schiff

Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

Les Misérables

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. ...

Rick Santorum

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.

Horatio Nelson

Jane Livingstone: Neutrality does not exist in the face of murder. Doing nothing to stop it is, in fact, choosing. It is not being neutral.

No Man's Land

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

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

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

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

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...

From Russia With Love

As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires. . . . And I think of Bloy’s words: “there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable.

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France