Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·Political neutrality✕clear

Speech · Political speech

Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.

1917

★ 1.2

Autobiography and memoir

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Simone de Beauvoir

1960

★ 2.1

Nobel Prize Lecture · Speech

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986 · 1986

★ 3.5

The artist must take sides.

1937

★ 3.6

Observe good faith and justice toward all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all... The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

George Washington

Washington's Farewell Address · 1796

★ 3.7

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign Nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little Political connection as possible.

George Washington

Washington's Farewell Address · 1796

★ 3.7