If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

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.

Becoming thoughtless does not mean, non-existence of thought. It simply means reaching out to the absolute state of the consciousness which is free of thinking. All of us need a thought to allow universal consciousness to express itself through finite medium – but in the end – the expression itself is infinite, whether visible or invisible

It is very possible to acknowledge another person’s concerns without entering into their vibration.

A ‘caring’ judgment is still a judgment. And any form of judgment creates blocks and stagnation.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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.

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.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".

Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do useful things whenever it is possible or necessary to do them, we shall soon be totally departed from the human scene, and forgotten, or remembered only for having disappeared. Armenians are too vital to be permitted to throw themselves away in neutrality, comfort, well-being, satisfaction, and so on and so forth.

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

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.

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

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

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

Neutrality as a lasting principle is an evidence of weakness.

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

A plague o' both your houses.

The heart is never neutral.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.