Being Neutral In Politics Quotes

People are more willing to support the exercise of authority over themselves when they believe it to be an objective, neutral feature of the natural world. This was the idea behind the concept of the divine right of kings. By making the king appear to be an integral part of God's plan for the world rather than an ordinary human being dominating his fellows by brute force, the public could be more easily persuaded to bow to his authority. However, when the doctrine of divine right became discredited, a replacement was needed to ensure that the public did not view political authority as merely the exercise of naked power. That replacement is the concept of the rule of law. ~ John Hasnas

A good journalist must be neutral," were the first word she heard from her professor at Georgetown.
"No journalist is, nor will be, nor really should be neutral," were the first word spoken to her by editor-in-chief of the Des Moines Registrant. "We're all biased one way or the other and that's fine. It's like in the court of law, two points of view clashing so the truth can emerge. Being objective is not the same as being neutral. ~ Krzysztof Pacyński

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Samadhi, which translates to 'neutral vision.' Sama means 'even' or 'neutral', and dhi means 'vision' or 'seeing.' Neutral vision means to see without judging. No appreciating nor condemning; simply looking. ~ Baron Baptiste

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. ~ Roy Hattersley

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist. ~ Susie Orbach

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics. ~ Karen DeCrow

Perceive everything in life with the neutral perspective and see how everything can serve you to move forward on your path. ~ Roshan Sharma

I don't represent anyone's opinion. Not even my own. I'm neutral. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics. ~ Shirin Neshat

I have a fearless but neutral personality. ~ Yani Tseng

In politics, being deceived is no excuse. ~ Leszek Kołakowski

I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work. ~ Sebastian Junger

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. ~ Youssou N'Dour

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want. ~ Abigail Breslin

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. ~ Kate Millett

At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral. ~ Maelle Gavet

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral. ~ Adam Schiff

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness. ~ Amy Harmon

I had hoped God would be neutral. ~ Darrell Royal

Technology is not good, it's neutral. ~ Tom Shadyac

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule. ~ Mark Messier

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics. ~ Evander Holyfield

Since the mirror of gentrification is representation in popular culture, increasingly only the gentrified get their stories told in mass ways. They look in the mirror and think it's a window, believing that corporate support for and inflation of their story is in fact a neutral and accurate picture of the world. If all art, politics, entertainment, relationships, and conversations must maintain that what is constructed and imposed by force is actually natural and neutral, then the gentrified mind is a very fragile parasite. ~ Sarah Schulman

The absolute value of being neutral is zero. ~ Toba Beta

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. ~ William O. Douglas

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth. ~ Michael Parenti

Identity politics instructs people to define their politics not by reference to general moral principles of justice and rights, but some shared experience of oppression. It divides people into myriad oppressed groups, each jockeying for power to secure its own interests against others - not put in place neutral rules that work for everyone (because such rules, in their thinking, only serve to entrench "existing power relations" and "structural marginalization"). ~ Shikha Dalmia

To serve the human race
is to serve a neutral and peaceful leadership,
Petra Hermans ~ Petra Hermans

... being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many. ~ Richard Flanagan

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. ~ David Douglass

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned. ~ John Lone

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics. ~ Audrey Hepburn

When you are in neutral, you are completely open to whatever information needs to come through at that time for the highest good. We simply can't be neutral if our emotions get in the way. ~ Catherine Carrigan

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. ~ Eugene McCarthy

Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs. ~ Jed S. Rakoff

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think. ~ Donna Brazile

We just need to remove the blinders from our eyes to have a neutral, level-headed and logical viewpoint based on self-evaluation. ~ Prem Jagyasi

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders. ~ George William Norris

I stay neutral with homosexuality; I neither support nor condemn it. But if people are happy with it we must not interfere. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

Nature is neutral. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. ~ Bill Ayers

I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded. ~ Padgett Powell

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing. ~ Christiane Amanpour

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. ~ Victor Hugo

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist. ~ Barney Frank

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous. ~ Sam Neill

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ... ~ Anais Nin

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. ~ Hillary Clinton

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance. ~ Matt Taibbi

Fame is morally neutral. ~ Edward R. Murrow

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. ~ Christopher Hitchens

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible. ~ William Gibson

Just as a car parked on a hill will naturally roll backward when shifted into neutral, we will naturally go the wrong way if we shift our Christian lives into neutral and stop seeking to learn and grow as believers. ~ Greg Laurie

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness. ~ Jonathan Haidt

The educator has the duty of not being neutral. ~ Paulo Freire

All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us. ~ John Trudell

I have said before that I'm not a a "curist" and I'm not an "ablist" but a "neutral" because I believe everyone has a story to tell without going to unhealthy extremes if we listened with our hearts we would learn about each others experiences. ~ Paul Isaacs

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics. ~ Douglas Hurd

Neutral state of mind has got me arriving on time, being far enough not to hide, leave the moment behind and fly, fly my child through your mind. ~ Michael M.

Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends - this is anathema to concept of nationalism. ~ Imran Khan

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral. ~ Linus Torvalds

When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly. ~ Nate Lowman

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things. ~ Henry Adams

Whatever I talk about is what I'm interested in at the time. Politics are big with me. But being a mom is taking up most of my time. My act is more family-oriented than it is about politics. ~ Wanda Sykes

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me. ~ Wayne Newton

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved. ~ Marianne Williamson

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought. ~ Robert Fisk

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. ~ Desmond Tutu

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry. ~ Kevin Cramer

When we believe that being ignorant we are neutral, it is just a way to deceive ourselves. Ignorance is nothing but the devil in disguise. ~ Mihail Militaru

I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way. ~ Nick Clegg

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee

I could never be a politician, I have a problem of too often being honest. ~ Carl R White

Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin something. ~ Murray Morgan

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless. ~ Sophia Bush

It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen. ~ Warren Eyster

In today's world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces. ~ George Habash

Anyone who thinks politics equals power has no understanding of either politics or power. The games of politics are sponsored by the powerful, and are designed to deliver a single end - to secure their power. ~ Graeme Rodaughan

Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means, ~ Alasdair MacIntyre

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less. ~ C.P. Snow

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out. ~ Natalie Jeremijenko

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. ~ Benazir Bhutto

Politics should be for people, politics shouldn't be for politicians. ~ Amit Kalantri

Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things to do, not politics. Only the third rate, the most unintelligent part of a country, moves into politics. ~ Osho

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. ~ Malcolm Forbes

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster. ~ Lucy Powell

But we need to search for and find, what we need to own and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing, is a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governments, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of forcing accountability. The politics of slowing things down. In the present circumstances, I'd say the only thing worth globalizing is dissent. ~ Megan McKenna

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ~ James Bovard

There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs ... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed. ~ Johann Lamont

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention. ~ Jane Fonda

Finality is not the language of politics. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other. ~ Salman Rushdie

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [office]," he wrote to a friend, "a rottenness begins in his conduct. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people. ~ Elayne Boosler

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. And does not smite me down. ~ Sylvia Plath

As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York. ~ Reid Scott