life on planet earth on Neutrality

To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.

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

‘Space’ means an area of freedom, without coercion or accountability, free of pressures and void of authority. Space may be imagined as week-end, holiday, a vacation, and is characterised by a kind of...

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Man cannot be separated from God, nor can the affairs of state be separated from morality.

To be nice means to silence ourselves in some way, and in doing so, we compromise our authenticity and give up freedom to act and speak. On the other hand, niceness may facilitate the shedding of resp...

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

In Essentials Unity; In Non-Essentials Liberty; In All Things Charity

The relationship between wartime leaders Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been well chronicled by historians of the period. On one visit to the United States, Roosevelt wheeled hims...

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

In a culture, the most important things usually go without being said. We Westerners don’t talk all the time about being individualists or about the importance of efficiency or why we prefer youth ove...

Of two evils, choose neither.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

I don’t think it is an overstatement to say that niceness has a hold on us, but in order to understand why that is, it helps to understand how it came to be. Like many words, nice has meant different ...

There is no good or evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Although we use the word stress in a negative connotation, it actually is a value-neutral concept. In the medical sense, stress is the body’s response to any change required of it or any demand impose...

We may not be able to prevent other people from being our enemies, but we can prevent ourselves from being enemies toward others.

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

What was the sense in saying that the enemy were in the wrong unless Right is a real thing which the Nazis at bottom knew as well as we did and ought to be have practiced? If they had no notion of wha...

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one needs.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which em...

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.