Quotes On Being Neutral

#1. The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Alexander Hamilton

#2. The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

Salman Rushdie

#3. The absolute value of being neutral is zero.

Toba Beta

#4. Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

Paulo Freire

#6. Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.

James G. Watt

#7. 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

#8. When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.

Peter Lynch

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Let's not talk about Fear. It is human, but so is Love. You can feel it, live it, believe in it, understand it. It's just a matter of choice like everything else in life.

Irina Serban

#13. It was difficult being a neutral broadcaster - in the people's eyes - because of my association with the Celtics.

Tom Heinsohn

#14. 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

#15. Neutral state of mind has got me arriving on time, being far enough not to hide, leave the moment behind and fly, fly my child through your mind.

Michael M.

#16. Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Eric Maisel

#17. Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

Bill Gates

#18. Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

Amy Harmon

#19. By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

Linus Torvalds

#20. The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.

Robert H. Jackson

#21. I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.

Brian Richardson

#22. 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

#23. To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit. Those are the only three things to do while waiting to go on.

Elaine Dundy

#24. Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being - in body, mind, and spirit.

Greg Anderson

#25. Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.

Chris Milk

#26. For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

G. Willow Wilson

#27. Language is not morally neutral because the human brain is not neutral in its desires. Neither is the dog brain. Neither is the bird brain: crows hate owls. We like some things and dislike others, we approve of some things and disapprove of others. Such is the nature of being an organism.

Margaret Atwood

#28. I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Susan Sontag

#29. Look, human men are either 'gay' or 'straight'. Well, there are other options, but let's not get into that right now.

Eli Easton

#30. I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

Moby

#31. Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Cotton Mather

#32. A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

Nadine Gordimer

#33. I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.

Nicolas Cage

#34. I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. On Media's Participation In Watergate

Pat Buchanan

#35. The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.

Michelle Alexander