#neutralit

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

#assertion #coming #generation #god #honest

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#administration #choice #choices #deliberately #ends

For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#desire #emotion #neutrality #sentiment #sex

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#lasting #neutrality #principle #weakness

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brickheads #conscious #consciousness #conservatism #conservative

Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view. But we don’t want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don’t play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don’t take sides in those struggles. Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#objectivity #equality

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

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 swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#beings #encourages #endure #helps #human

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#helps #must #neutrality #never #oppressor