Neutrality Quotes

I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.

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

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

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

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

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

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

... whereas hostilities have unhappily commenced between the Government of the United States of America and certain States styling themselves the Confederate States of America: .... we do hereby strictly charge and command all our loving subjects to observe a strict neutrality in and during the aforesaid hostilities, and to abstain from violating or contravening either the laws and statutes of the realm in this behalf or the law of nations in relation thereto, as they will answer to the contrary at their peril.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.

The most fatal of all neutralities is that which results not from choice, but from irresolution.

I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

A scientist belongs to the world in times of peace but to his country in times of war.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

I don't have business with any politicians.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the center of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.