#neutral

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea, but for now we are young, let us lay in the sun, and count every beautiful thing we can see... Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all. ↗

— Jeff Mangum

#neutral-milk-hotel #beauty

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#hell #morality #neutrality #hell

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

#conflict #hands #means #neutral #powerful

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 as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#always #artist #because #could #creative

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#earth #high #influence #life #neutralize

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#authentic #beautiful #cannot #cleansed #discovery

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth. ↗

— John Amery

#been #conscience #country #haze #i

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ↗

— Martin Amis

#gives #moral #neutral #style

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#built-in #first #i #i see #neutral

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. ↗

— Robert Browning

#bad #being #black #business #choice