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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

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

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

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

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

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.

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

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.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

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

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.

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

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.

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

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

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.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.