Top 100 Take Sides Quotes
#1. People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
Warren Giles
#2. I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah, or for or against Israel.
John Dingell
#3. Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
Ruth Benedict
#4. It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others - playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
Robert Greene
#5. You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
Patricia Sun
#6. It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.
Brian Spellman
#7. I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. You can't take sides against anything. If you would just be one who is for things, you would live happily ever after. If you could just leave the "against" part out.
Esther Hicks
#9. People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.
Scott Adams
#10. God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.
Sidney Sheldon
#11. I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indifferent
Antonio Gramsci
#12. The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.
Sergei Lavrov
#13. You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
Pablo Picasso
#15. Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.
Sandra Bernhard
#16. you don't have to bend over backwards, either, and go asking her to dinner or something. She does have a family of her own. You're supposed to take my side in this." "I thought you didn't want us to take sides." "No, no, I don't. I mean you shouldn't take her side, is what I'm trying to say.
Anne Tyler
#17. If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.
Bashar Al-Assad
#18. There is no more a 'political middle' than there is a family in America with 2.3 children. People with opinions take sides. Contrary to what you've heard, it's actually more important
to stand for something than it is for everybody to 'just get along'.
Ann Coulter
#19. A rule in life I don't break is - I never take sides between two people. There are two stories and somewhere in the middle lies the truth.
E.M. Benton
#21. There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
Robert Breault
#22. A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
#23. Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion is a private matter. The government doesn't take sides. Public schools don't promote or denigrate any religion.
Rachel Maddow
#24. Of course I have to take sides, said Pepper. Everyone has to take sides in something.
Neil Gaiman
#25. this is a time when we must all take sides for or against the king.
G.A. Henty
#26. Life isn't like a novel, you know. In life you have to take sides. And it's clear which side you've chosen.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#27. People always make choices, always take sides!
Deyth Banger
#29. Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
Robert A. Heinlein
#32. Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.
Paul Robeson
#34. A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
#35. God doesn't take sides. He created all of them.
Toba Beta
#36. People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.
Andrew Zimbalist
#37. You take sides if your smart. Offer up your loyalty cause it's all you've got to trade. Trouble is, most times, when you're looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying." - Radiance
Catherynne M Valente
#38. For in our own day we see many who are stupid enough to be so overcome by the mere title of "the church," that they take sides with the pope, and would be damned forever rather than raise a finger against his authority.
John Calvin
#39. Every side attacks you when you don't take sides.
Marty Rubin
#40. Sooner or later ... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
Graham Greene
#41. Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters.
Paul Bloom
#42. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel
#43. So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.
John Eldredge
#44. To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.
Dorothee Solle
#45. When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own.
Oscar Romero
#46. One should never take sides in anything, Mr. Kelvil. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
Oscar Wilde
#47. It's important to always take sides. Both sides,
Steve Toltz
#48. Fate does not take sides. It is fair-minded and generally prefers to maintain some balance between the likelihood of success and failure in all our endeavors.
Amor Towles
#49. Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family ...
Mario Puzo
#50. This split the scientific community up into factions and promoted conflict. This was Stalin's objective. It permitted him to intervene and take sides whenever deemed necessary
Martin McCauley
#51. There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.
A.S. Byatt
#52. You're a witness. You're always standing around watching what's happening, scribbling in your book what other people do. You have to get in the middle of it. You have to take sides. Make a contribution to the fight. Any fight. The one you believe in. Until you do, you'll never be a writer, Eugene.
Neil Simon
#53. Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
Elie Wiesel
#54. 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.'
Howard K. Smith
#55. What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.
Fulton J. Sheen
#57. Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
John Banville
#58. I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
Elie Wiesel
#59. Our citizens never hesitate to take sides against one another, whether it's Democrats versus Republicans, Coke drinkers opposed to Pepsi enthusiasts or Yankee loyalists against Red Sox aficionados.
Jen Lancaster
#60. Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Oscar Wilde
#61. So let everyone take sides. Team Nick, Team Amy. Turn it into even more of a game: Sell some fucking T-shirts.
Gillian Flynn
#62. Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike.
Lou Krieger
#63. Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
George J. Mitchell
#64. It is wrong to say the U.S. should 'not take sides' in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
Howard Berman
#66. Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be
blamed.
Keith Richards
#67. I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.
Kurt Schrader
#68. Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
George W. Bush
#69. You don't win everything. And you ultimately have to take what you get. I think on the case of [Donald] Trump, there's a much bigger upside than down side.
Rush Limbaugh
#70. I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it's ... there's good sides and there's bad sides ... I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.
Lisa Vanderpump
#71. There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.
Abdolkarim Soroush
#72. I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.
Sharon Stone
#73. Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.
Dick Morris
#74. Your mama musta had to take a double dose of laxatives to bring you into this world, ya lyin' little turd," he growled, fists clenching at his sides.
Amy Cook
#75. Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
Leonard Cohen
#76. If you rush to take a drug, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a Guinea Pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects.
Robert S. Mendelsohn
#77. The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.
Warren Buffett
#78. He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles Lamb
#79. I take on everybody's problems. I have a very maternal side. I'm basically a very normal, down-to-earth person.
Shannen Doherty
#80. I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
Hampton Sides
#81. If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.
Stella Adler
#82. There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
Chris Rock
#83. I take no sides. I am interested in the shape of ideas. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine: "Do not despair; one the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned." That sentence has a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.
Samuel Beckett
#84. 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.
Jamie Bell
#85. It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
Orville Redenbacher
#86. On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.
Anatol Rapoport
#87. I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman's right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man's right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak
Tony Abbott
#88. There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.
Saoirse Ronan
#89. Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.
Nicki Minaj
#90. Victory takes sides on people who are
more compatible with nature and future.
Toba Beta
#92. On the matters where your country is wrong, don't take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.
Peter Wolf
#94. [Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds.
Jeffrey Rosen
#95. I couldn't make a choice between chaos and control. Not because it had been made for me. But because there was no choice to make. It wasn't one or the other. They were both inside me. They were both a part of me. I was nothing without both sides. Take one away and I would fall." ~ Skye
Jocelyn Davies
#96. The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.
Leymah Gbowee
#97. I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two sides to him.
Robertson Davies
#98. It strikes me that religion - in its essence - seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.
Brandon Sanderson
#99. It's interesting that there's so many different sides of this: Women get frustrated that we don't get paid enough; and then the Republicans or the CEOs that are men say, "Well, it's because women take off time for maternity leave."
Jennifer Lawrence
#100. When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.
Francis Spellman
