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Neutrality Quotes

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. Woodrow Wilson
Edwin Hubbel Chapin quote: "Neutral men are the devil's allies."
Neutral men are the devil's allies. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Lajos Kossuth quote: "Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness."
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. Lajos Kossuth
Justice Brandeis quote: "Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence."
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. Justice Brandeis
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
What I used to say to people, when I was much more engag 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
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. Victor Hugo
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. That is absolutely unconscionable. 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
Max Eastman quote: "People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not..."
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. Max Eastman
Howard Zinn quote: "You can't be neutral on a moving train."
You can't be neutral on a moving train. Howard Zinn
Desmond Tutu quote: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen..."
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Desmond Tutu
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them. Michel Foucault
In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch Bertrand Russell
We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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