#neutral

The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected against discrimination and prejudice, and they are free to maintain whatever part of their ethnic heritage or identity they wish, consistent with the rights of others. But their efforts are purely private, and it is not the place of public agencies to attach legal identities or disabilities to cultural membership or ethnic identity. This separation of state and ethnicity precludes any legal or governmental recognition of ethnic groups, or any use of ethnic criteria in the distribution of rights, resources, and duties. ↗

— Will Kymlicka

#discrimination #ethnicity #individuals #liberalism #liberties

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#buying #comfort #cost #countries #groups

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#body #death #degrees #emotionally #familiar

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 educator has the duty of not being neutral. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#neutrality #students #teachers #change

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

#face #helped #i #kind #look

I have a fearless but neutral personality. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#i #neutral #personality

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

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ↗

— Martin Amis

#gives #moral #neutral #style

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#neutrality #sin #than #times