Neutral Quotes

298 quotes by 268 authors

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… — Steve Ditko
The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature… — George Washington
The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to… — James Madison
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… — Alexander Hamilton
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,… — George Washington
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison… — Michelle Alexander
Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness. — Amy Harmon
There is no neutral ground when it comes to the tolerance question. Everybody has a point of view she thinks is right, and everybody passes… — Greg Koukl
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume. — Gertrude Stein
Emptiness the starting point. â€” In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived… — Bruce Lee
Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda. — Douglas Wilson
We needed to find some options for moving to neutral ground. I was tasked with doing that. — Karen Handel
Itâ€™s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind of permission to… — Lynn Coady
To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. — George Washington
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is… — Robert Rauschenberg
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him… — Raymond Chandler
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs. — John Brunner
And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you… — Niccolo Machiavelli
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.… — Emile M. Cioran

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