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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. -- Louis D. Brandeis
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. -- Elie Wiesel
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. -- Alexander Hamilton
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. -- Lajos Kossuth
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. -- Max Eastman
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. -- Elie Wiesel
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
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end. -- Hun Sen
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. -- Elie Wiesel
Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions -- Charles Caleb Colton
We need to make Net Neutrality the law. We need to elect a Congress that will make it a priority to keep this important principal intact - and insure equal and open access to the Internet for all. -- Chellie Pingree
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
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. -- Arthur Goldberg
Neutrality is not politics. -- Eleftherios Venizelos
Neutrality has its own aesthetics. -- Wim Crouwel
Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state. -- Molly Crabapple
Neutrality is a tough call for the weaker ones. -- Kofi Annan
Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed. -- Elie Wiesel
Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror. -- Francis Quarles
Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity. -- Justine Bateman
Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government. -- Ted Cruz
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality. -- Mark Cuban
My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued. -- Marsha Blackburn
A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place. -- Justine Bateman
With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players. -- Chellie Pingree
Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the 'last mile' of the network over which data flows into a person's home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years. -- Marsha Blackburn
Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist. -- Mao Zedong
As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went to Congress with over a million signatures asking that Net Neutrality be made law. -- Chellie Pingree
Neutrality may be useful, but it's useful like eunuchs are useful. Once you cut off their balls they grow big and strong, but you can never be sure if they will serve the harem or the master. -- Vaughn Sherman
The heart is never neutral. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. -- John Paul Stevens
It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral. -- Lajos Kossuth
Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality. -- Al Franken
If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet. -- James Hilton
There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias. -- Phyllis Rose
A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him. -- William Penn
Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy. -- Dave Winer
Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat. -- Samuel Schmid
From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality. -- Eamon de Valera
In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. -- Tom C. Clark
Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged. -- Al Franken
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. -- Dante Alighieri
The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone. -- Al Franken
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices -- Bill Bradley
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices. -- Bill Bradley
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government. -- Alexander Hamilton
I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse. -- Colin Firth
The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either. -- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started. -- Al Franken
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. -- Stefan Sagmeister
There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well - unless you are a Christian. -- Francis Schaeffer
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
There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please. -- Sir Fulke Greville
I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say. -- Rachel Maddow
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. -- Joseph Hall
Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version. -- Stacy Schiff
You can't be neutral on a moving train. -- Howard Zinn
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral. -- Nadine Gordimer
The educator has the duty of not being neutral. -- Paulo Freire
Every side attacks you when you don't take sides. -- Marty Rubin
Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy. -- Criss Jami
Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
I don't represent anyone's opinion. Not even my own. I'm neutral. -- Ljupka Cvetanova
There are no independent people. Even when you are standing aside, you are taking a side. -- Ljupka Cvetanova
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. -- Dante Alighieri
She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference. -- Mary Allsebrook
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire
There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him. -- Leo Tolstoy
The best thing about being neutral and not believing or disbelieving in anything is that the nature reveals the truth in front of you automatically. -- Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets. -- Amit Kalantri
A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less. -- C.P. Snow
Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither. -- Criss Jami
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
For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with. -- Ian Fleming
My standpoint is armed neutrality. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure. -- John Landis Mason
Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality. -- Saul Bellow
To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it. -- Ayn Rand
There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned. -- Bruce R. McConkie
Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes. -- Alexis Ohanian
Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet. -- Al Franken
There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality. -- John Donne
You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated. -- Tim Wu
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. -- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Big guy and little guy, it should make no difference. The rule of law demands neutrality. -- Jon Kyl
Compared with the BBC's studied neutrality, Fox comes across as a kind of Gong Show of propaganda. -- Russ Baker
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence. -- Samantha Power
There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff. -- Terry Gross
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' -- John Oliver
Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality. -- Nawal El Saadawi
Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself. -- Daniel Goleman
Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality. -- Mooji
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. -- Dan Barker
[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself. -- Catherine Camus
Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time. -- Megan Smith
With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger. -- V. K. Krishna Menon
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. -- John Foster Dulles
All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection. -- Thomas de Maiziere
We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular. -- Frederick Lenz
We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular. -- Frederick Lenz
Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly, it supports secularism. -- Stephen V Monsma
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. -- Alexander Hamilton
I don't think that neutrality is an obstacle to Austria's successful integration into European and world structures... but this is a question that the Austrian people themselves must decide -- Vladimir Putin
The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either. -- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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
I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet. -- Elena Mukhina
I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms. -- Beeban Kidron
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil. -- Michel Onfray
The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large extent by the increase in economic inequality. -- Stephanie Coontz
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private. -- Charles Colson
Carbon neutrality is going to be so standardized that you will look at anything that is not carbon neutral and go, "where the hell did that monster come from?" It's exciting. -- Christiana Figueres
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood. -- George Grosz
For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions. -- Herbert Schiller

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