Neutral Quotes

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral. (Robert Orben)
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. View quote
Desmond Tutu
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. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. View quote
William O. Douglas
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. View quote
Paulo Freire
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce. View quote
Emil Cioran
In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections - and it matters which ones get made and unmade. View quote
Donna Haraway
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. View quote
Martin Amis
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. (Herbert Marcuse)
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. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period. View quote
Ivanka Trump
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
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. View quote
John Donne
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics. View quote
Theodor Adorno
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. View quote
Susan Sontag
Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' – expressive – this is an early problem – a negative solution or – expression of new sense – which can help one into – what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention. View quote
Jasper Johns
I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
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. View quote
Jonah Goldberg
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse. (W. H. Auden)
I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army. View quote
George W. Bush
I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations. View quote
George Washington
[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent. View quote
Woody Allen