The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis
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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
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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 p...
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
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I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. I remember he asked his father: Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent? And now the boy is turning to me. Tell me, he asks, what have you done with my future, what have you done with your life? And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. And then I explain to him how na
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality
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The longer you celebrate an accomplished task, the sooner you fail your next one.
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Balance is the enemy of art.
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