Neutrality Quotes - Page 6

• Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

  Molly Crabapple

  Boredom, Weapons, States

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Writing, Would Be, Railroads

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• You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.

  Tim Wu

  Complicated, Controversial, Reason

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Moving, Europe, People

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• Neutrality has its own aesthetics.

  Wim Crouwel

  Aesthetics

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• We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can reject white supremacy and support racial projects aimed at a democratic distibution of power and a just distribution of resources. Or we can claim to not be interested in race, in which case we almost certainly will end up tacitly supporting white supremacy by virtue of our unwillingness to confront it. In a society in which white supremacy has structured every aspect of our world, there can be no claim to neutrality.

  Robert Jensen

  Our World, Race, Games

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• How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Friendship, Men, Yield

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Life, Believe, Keys

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• I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.

  Sargent Shriver

  Running, Spiritual, Religious

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• 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

  Prayer, Confused, Fighting

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• 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

  Buddhism, Want, Action

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• After President Obama announced his support for net neutrality yesterday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz tweeted that 'Net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet.' While Ted Cruz continues to be the Taylor Swift of not getting over Obamacare.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Texas, Obamacare, Yesterday

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• 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

  War, Doe, World

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• I believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that if you want to marry another woman that you can do that and have a contract. But the thing is is the religious connotation of marriage that has been going on for thousands of years, I still want to preserve that. And you probably could have both. You could have both traditional marriage, which I believe in. And then you could also have the neutrality of the law that allows people to have contracts with another.

  Rand Paul

  Religious, Believe, Years

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Philosophy, Commitment, Thinking

  "Justice For Sale (Update)". "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'

  John Oliver

  Two, Boredom, Promise

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• To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Sanctions, Implying

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.435, Penguin

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• Compared with the BBC's studied neutrality, Fox comes across as a kind of Gong Show of propaganda.

  Russ Baker

  Foxes, Kind, Propaganda

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• We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs feel their neutrality and nationalism are threatened ... while at the same time trying to hasten the inevitable Arab acceptance of the permanence of Israel ... We must ... seek a permanent settlement among Arabs and Israelis based not on an armed truce but on mutual self-interest.

  John F. Kennedy

  Acceptance, Self, Israel

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• Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained--a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.

  Chauncey Wright

  Philosophical, Character, Ideas

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.47, A&C Black

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• I accept the proposition that...“to judge is an exercise of power” and because...“there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives – no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging,” I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Exercise, Color, People

  "A Latina Judge’s Voice". Sonia Sotomayor’s Speech at the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal’s Symposium, www.law.berkeley.edu. October 26, 2001.

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• Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.

  Abe Fortas

  Religious, Government, May

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• 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

  Art, Teaching, Engineering

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• Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is
  mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them.
  Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their
  neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere
  and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified
  in pursuing them and warring against them.

  Abdullah Yusuf Ali

  Attitude, Heart, Fighting

  Abdullah Yusuf Ali (2004). “The Meaning of the Holy Qu'ran”, Amana Pubns

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• 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

  Thinking, Media, Ideas

  "Rachel Maddow: 'I'm definitely not an autocutie'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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