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