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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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• A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

  Saul Bellow

  Creativity, Persons

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• Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Historical, Intellectual, World

  Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (2009). “Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space”, p.14, Westminster John Knox Press

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• "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."

  Ayn Rand

  Fear, Responsibility, Men

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• 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

  Peace, Honesty, Powerful

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.122, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Sin, Belligerence

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• Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Lady Macbeth

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.867, Wordsworth Editions

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• A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

  Carly Fiorina

  Vendors, Standards, Adopted

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• Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

  Daniel Goleman

  Passion, Cutting, Richness Of Life

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.101, Bantam

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• 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

  Break, Made, Horatio

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.223

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• In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

  Tom C. Clark

  Men, States, Committed

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• The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

  John Paul Stevens

  Government, Religion, Atheism

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• 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

  Host, Belgium, Interest

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• 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

  Strong, Rights, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1865). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”, p.131

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• Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Negative Words, America

  "Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today".

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• 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

  Country, Peace, Rights

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• 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

  Looks, Faces, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sides, Oppressed, Oppressors

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• The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

  Bill Bradley

  Religious, Practice, Atheism

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• 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

  Rights, Weakness, Adequate

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.50

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• 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 to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Arms, Danger

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.108, Penguin

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• We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Hard Work, Science

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• 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 use it irrationally.

  Steve Ditko

  Gun, Power, Choices

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• 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

  Evil, Unity, Charity

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• If you go to Cass Sunstein, what net neutrality means is now if you go to FoxNews.com, you will have Arianna Huffington, a little box pop up with her showing that Bill O’Reilly is wrong on this or here’s an opposing view of Bill O’Reilly.

  Glenn Beck

  Mean, Views, Littles

  "The Glenn Beck Program", www.glennbeck.com. December 2, 2010.

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