Neutrality Quotations

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.

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

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

We need to make Net Neutrality the law. We need to elect a Congress that will make it a priority to keep this important principal intact - and insure equal and open access to the Internet for all.

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

As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went to Congress with over a million signatures asking that Net Neutrality be made law.

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.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.

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.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.

Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favoring your own services over others, they have struggled because there has been more than one court case in which it was asserted the FCC didn't have the authority to punish ISPs for abusing their control over the broadband channel.

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.

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

Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

Let's wait and see how this all turns out. I don't think we are quite ready to say what Net neutrality is.

My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.

Network neutrality protects the ability of users to access the lawful content, applications, and services of their choice. In other words, it lets users determine who wins and loses in the marketplace, and that's the way it should be.

Network neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet. Net neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online - and the public demands Congress not dismantle it.

Network neutrality is a nearly indefinable concept. For instance, does network neutrality mean that network operators can't block spam? Should network operators be allowed to stop viruses from spreading? Should large users of peer-to-peer software be allowed unlimited bandwidth so service for other users is slower?

Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the 'last mile' of the network over which data flows into a person's home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years.

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

One of the parts we really don't like is the net neutrality provision because it's extraordinarily weak. It does suffer from the same problem as the House bill to the extent that there's nothing about discrimination in there.

Basically this merger will mean even less competition for broadband Internet, and frankly that makes a Net neutrality requirement even more imperative. If there was real competition in the provision of high-speed Internet access we might not be having this conversation, but now the world has gotten even smaller than it was before.

We're probably neutral on net neutrality right now.

The heart is never neutral.

I agree that the university's scheme is permissible but do not believe the court should take the occasion to impose a cast-iron viewpoint neutrality requirement to uphold it,

Suddenly, a blockage that had existed for at least 50 years was removed. What the Reagan administration was able to do was recover the original understanding of the religion clauses. Neutrality toward religion does not mean secularity. It means evenhandedness.

That doesn't sound very much like neutrality to me, ... You should raise the demand to end the Canadian occupation of Afghanistan.

We're already starting to hear from consumer advocacy groups that they absolutely are going to make Net neutrality a big part of the regulatory review of this merger.

The question is: Who is John Roberts? What does he really believe? What we're finding out is troubling. I've moved from a position of neutrality to being deeply disturbed.

Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...

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.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

We call for open and unconditional dialogue with the Quartet Committee and commitment to neutrality and justice.

We have been moving monetary policy toward neutrality for some time, and our policy appears to be close to neutral now.

This reminds us that the fight over Net neutrality is even more important. AT&T has already made it clear that they intend to engage in discrimination and pick and choose who has access to the Internet's fast lane.

We think the Fed is hesitating. It still intends to achieve monetary neutrality but it is not ready to shed away its caution as it fears uncontrolled inflationary skid.

We believe that any decision about a union should be made in a neutral environment, and we feel that card-check neutrality has been proven to have the ability to make the process fair.

The risk if you are a dollar hawk is they show they are closer to neutrality and if you are a dollar dove that they show no evidence of being done.

This merger makes a net neutrality requirement all the more urgent.

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality

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

It's regrettable that the WTO Secretariat has once again thrown away its neutrality under China's pressure and arbitrarily deleted the titles of members of our permanent mission at the WTO headquarters.

I'm not criticizing or saying it should or should not be that way. But neutrality is a major issue. Neutrality would level the playing field.

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

His Majesty's Government cannot for one moment entertain the Chancellor's proposal that they should bind themselves to neutrality on such terms.

His Majesty's Government cannot for a moment entertain the Chancellor's proposal that they should bind themselves to neutrality on such terms.

Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

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".

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.

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

The hotel industry is committed to fair contract negotiations for our workers in each city. We want to reach agreements that benefit our employees. But the 'Change to Win' campaign and recent leafleting in 60 cities is designed to pressure companies into signing these 'card check neutrality agreements' and deprive our employees of the right to choose for themselves.

The focus point of the market this week is going to be tomorrow. If anything, I'm hoping for neutrality out of the Fed.

All sides of the net neutrality debate agree that consumers should be in control of their Internet experience. Where we differ is on whether consumers alone should foot the bill for the advanced networks that drive the Internet's growth and evolution. Simply put, our side believes that businesses that seek to profit on the use of next-generation networks should not be free of all costs associated with the increased capacity that is required for delivery of the advanced services and applications they seek to market." ()

There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.

Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.

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.

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

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

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

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.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.