Definition of Neutrality

Neutrality

The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference.

Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor bad.

The quality or state of being neutral. See Neutral, a., 4.

The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers.

Those who are neutral; a combination of neutral powers or states.

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Neutrality Quotations

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.
Rick Santorum

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

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 preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Woodrow Wilson

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton

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

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.
Horatio Nelson

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
Eamon de Valera

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
Louis D. Brandeis

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
Rachel Maddow

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.
Colin Firth

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max Eastman

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

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.
Edward Felten

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.
George William Norris

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.
Edward Grey

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

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.
Arthur J. Goldberg

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.
Hun Sen

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

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

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
Tom C. Clark

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

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Neutrality Translations

neutrality in Spanish is neutralidad
neutrality in Swedish is neutralitet

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