#neutral

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#convicts #defendants #dna #evidence #finds

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs. ↗

— Luke Timothy Johnson

#political-correctness #change

Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view. But we don’t want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don’t play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don’t take sides in those struggles. Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#objectivity #equality

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

— Dante Alighieri

#hell #morality #neutrality #hell

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. ↗

— George W. Bush

#been #between #certain #conflict #course

We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me. ↗

— Jenson Button

#car #comfortable #develop #different #different styles

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#always #artist #because #could #creative

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

#face #helped #i #kind #look

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

#beings #encourages #endure #helps #human

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#helps #must #neutrality #never #oppressor