Taking Sides Quotes

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

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

Pornography is a malady to be diagnosed and an occasion for judgment. It's something one is for or against. And taking sides about pornography is hardly like being against aleatoric music or Pop Art, but quite a bit like being for or against legalized abortion or federal aid to parochial schools.

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

People are either with us or against us. If the line isn’t clear and there aren’t clear consequences, people migrate to the wrong side of the line.

Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can't just be neutral. You can't just say, 'Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife.' No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth.

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.'

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.

It seems to me that the untutored narcotics agents of this great Government ... might have been better employed than in taking sides in a medical controversy involving the broad subject of what will or will not constitute the proper medication in the treatment of addiction. Yet this was done, and I am sorry to say is now being done by our Government, and will continue to be done until the end of time unless some protesting voice is raised against undue interference by lawyers, policemen, and detectives in the practice of medicine, and furtherance of its research and study.

Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

Too many pulpits have become political rostrums, openly taking sides with party or government as if Jesus Christ Himself, were He living today, would be either a Democrat of a Republican.

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved.

We shouldn’t take sides. We have two bad sides to take a choice between.

I love giving you my opinion, but I don't like taking sides.

Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.