Top 100 Neutral Quotes
#1. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.
Veronica Roth
#2. 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
#3. His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.
Charles Spurgeon
#4. There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.
Jose Maria Aznar
#5. In Europe, Murrow observed to his wife, people were dying and "a thousand years of civilization [were] being smashed" while America remained on the sidelines. How could one possibly be objective or neutral about that?
Lynne Olson
#7. Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.
Dalai Lama
#8. I am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral. I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy.'
Ruby Rose
#9. The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
William O. Douglas
#10. Sophisticated people seem to think that "the truth" must always be dark, disappointing, disillusioning. But this is not so at all. Most of the time, darkness, disappointment, and disillusionment are the illusion.
Truth is neutral. Our decisions determine what darkens and what lightens our lives.
Orson Scott Card
#11. It was difficult being a neutral broadcaster - in the people's eyes - because of my association with the Celtics.
Tom Heinsohn
#12. I don't think anyone can answer whether the Fed is going to have to tighten beyond neutral, ... You have to be looking at the economy going forward and that changes as additional data comes in.
Michael H. Moskow
#13. Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.
Samuel Johnson
#14. You can't be in neutral and hope to reach your full potential
Joel Osteen
#15. I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.
Mark Messier
#16. We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.
Martin Jacques
#17. Great Question Are:
Quintessential
Unforgettable
Expressive
Stimulating
Thought Provoking
Impactful
Open Ended
Neutral
Significant
Farshad Asl
#18. In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.
Eric Kandel
#19. The game is in a neutral country for both teams.
David Beckham
#20. I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
Tao Lin
#21. Insecurity is gender neutral. Insecurity comes at various levels with power and position.
Aparna Jain
#22. I stay neutral with homosexuality; I neither support nor condemn it. But if people are happy with it we must not interfere.
M.F. Moonzajer
#23. Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.
Lorrie Moore
#24. 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
#25. Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.
Lynn Coady
#26. Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#27. Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.
Steve Ditko
#29. One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.
Ken Loach
#30. Icarus."
"Hmm?"
"I don't have a hidden agenda. Nor do I intend to use you or mislead you with my charm."
Despite herself, she smiled, glancing at him. His face was studiously neutral.
"The day you act charming, I'll know something is wrong.
Dru Pagliassotti
#31. The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.
Learned Hand
#32. I am a she. The mask is a he, or is actually gender-neutral. People love the character.
K. Guillory
#33. I'd become more adept at being with other people; I'd lowered my expectations of them and learned to let my mind drift into neutral when they spoke.
Sebastian Faulks
#34. The absolute value of being neutral is zero.
Toba Beta
#35. The first moments of being awake are neutral, as they always are, waiting for us to assign memory and meaning from the day before.
Sarah Ockler
#36. Jesus does not allow us to be neutral about Him. Jesus demands that we decide about Him.
Billy Graham
#37. The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.
John Donne
#38. Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.
Jed S. Rakoff
#39. The prevailing caste system cannot be successfully dismantled with a purely race-neutral approach. To
Michelle Alexander
#40. I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.
Brigid Schulte
#41. To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
Jerry Saltz
#42. A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Robert Smithson
#43. In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
Armstrong Williams
#44. Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.
Wayne Dyer
#45. It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.
Marietta Holley
#46. All I could do was stand there and wait for it to dissipate. "You're evil, you know that?" I said. She grinned and shook her head. "Chaotic Neutral, sugar." I
Ernest Cline
#47. I am not offering God as a theory to compete with scientific theories about the universe. Rather I am saying that those self-contained, secular theories provide evidence for theologically neutral premises in philosophical arguments leading to a conclusion that has theistic significance.
William Lane Craig
#48. The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
Leon Trotsky
#49. His mood-ring eyes were neutral gray, summer clouds that threatened no rain.
Cara McKenna
#50. Here's the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck - and some things have changed since the 19th Century.
Al Gore
#51. We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero. Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.
Rupert Murdoch
#52. A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of blacks back in their place.
Michelle Alexander
#53. The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.
Marvin Ammori
#54. The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#56. Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.
Jonah Goldberg
#57. This obsession with leadership ... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.
Henry Mintzberg
#58. Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be turned either to constructive ends or destructive ends. That's not the fault of science.
Arthur William Galston
#60. Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.
Simon Van Booy
#61. Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic ... being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.
Alan Coren
#62. Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.
James K.A. Smith
#63. The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
Edmund Burke
#64. Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings.
Sharad Pawar
#65. In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
Brennan Manning
#66. Since the fall of man was ethical in character (not metaphysical) the unregenerate and regenerate share the facts of the world and the rules of thought, but their interpretation and use of them are far from neutral.
Greg L. Bahnsen
#67. I do hope nobody else here has any other surprises planned, because if you so much as think about harming one another, I will oblige them. This is neutral ground. Violators will be gruesomely and violently shown the error of their ways. Clear?
Rachel Caine
#68. Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface ... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.
Wim Crouwel
#69. Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.
Eliot Spitzer
#70. Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.
Noam Chomsky
#71. Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.
Rick Smolan
#72. Is it better to commit evil and attempt to balance it with an exalted act than to live a resolutely neutral life?
Don DeLillo
#73. Code is never neutral, and interfaces can signal all kinds of things to users.
Sarah Jeong
#74. A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted
Carly Fiorina
#75. Would make me blind to the needs of my country, while you and these others, having only love for country and none for my daughter, must be considered neutral?
Cameron Dokey
#76. People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
Banksy
#77. There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
C.S. Lewis
#78. Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Dag Hammarskjold
#79. Neutral territory, therefore, this abbey where the two groups could meet.
Umberto Eco
#80. Duck was a neutral party, so he brought the ultimatum to the cows.
Doreen Cronin
#81. 'The Wire' fans are very specific and hard core. Nobody is neutral about 'The Wire.' You either love it, or you couldn't watch it, and there is no in-between.
Deirdre Lovejoy
#82. I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.
Megan Alexander
#83. It's impossible to be neutral when even doing nothing is a decision.
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#84. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
Zadie Smith
#85. I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
Walter Isaacson
#86. Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#87. He was determined to stick with his plan, convincing himself to stay neutral and detached. That's the plan!
Then she leaned over him.
Madison Thorne Grey
#88. If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
Randall Terry
#89. The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.
R.C. Sproul
#90. There is a characteristic INTJ expression which has become popularly termed "the death glare." This facial expression is actually not a glare, but the INTJ's neutral face.
Anna Moss
#91. In today's world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.
George Habash
#92. The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer.
Pope Benedict XVI
#93. I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. It's an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top.
Bobbi Brown
#94. All technologies are neutral. What counts is who uses them and what they use them for. Any material, any tool in the hands of an artist, can result in a work of art.
Ken Robinson
#95. As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is
also the discursive/cultural means by which "sexed nature" or "a natural
sex" is produced and established as "prediscursive," prior to culture,
a politically neutral surface on which culture acts
Judith Butler
#96. Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting
Bruce Willis
#97. Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.
Max Lerner
#98. Our courts provide a neutral forum for the adjudication of disputes under the law, not based on economic or political power, on race, on sex or any other personal characteristics.
Jon Kyl
#99. You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.
George Hearst
#100. The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.
John Lone
