Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. — Elie Wiesel
You can't choose up sides on a round world. — Wayne Dyer
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. — George Lincoln Rockwell
You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides. — Noel Gallagher
As an American, you can do whatever you want to do, and you can choose whatever side you want to be on. — Dana White
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. — Jascha Heifetz
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. — Baltasar Gracian
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. — Ayn Rand
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. — Desmond Tutu
There are two sides to every question. — Protagoras
The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence — Henry A. Kissinger
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on — Robert Capa
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. — Jim Rohn
Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative. — Paul Robeson
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paulo Freire
Short Choosing Sides Quotes
When eating choose the place, when playing choose your friends. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed. — Louis XIV
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. — Yasser Arafat
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. — Tryon Edwards
Everybody by your side ain't on your side — Steve Harvey
There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option. — Dean Smith
Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong. — LL Cool J
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy. — J. K. Rowling
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. — Aesop
One should choose the lesser of two evils. — Danish Proverbs
Choosing Sides Image Quotes
Patience is when you're supposed to be mad but you choose to understand.
Choose The Right Way Quotes
Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there. — Elif Batuman
We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves. — Milton William Cooper
Breakfast is always the best time for something juicy, sweet and fresh - it just feels like the right way to open the day. There's no right way, though, when it comes to choosing the fruit. — Yotam Ottolenghi
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails. — John Assaraf
Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity. — Richard M. Weaver
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens. — Dan Savage
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent. — Jacob G. Hornberger
The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind. — Sengcan
The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. — Oprah Winfrey
The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind. — SengTs'an
Choose Right Quotes
Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence. — DMX
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. — E. O. Wilson
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. — John Diefenbaker
We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice. — John C. Maxwell
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. — Marianne Williamson
There was a time when the term liberal had been so thoroughly demonized by those on the right that I remember consciously choosing to call myself a progressive in order to evade the stigma. But there was no change in my perspective that accompanied it. — Bret Weinstein
When you can't look on the bright side I will sit with you in the dark.
I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick. — Carole Lombard
We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who has learned from those failures. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired. — Joe Rogan
We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose. — Robert McNamara
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both. — Angela Davis
If you’re smart, you will choose happiness. You can train yourself to look on the bright side so it becomes second nature. — Naval Ravikant
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose. — Thomas Jefferson
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. — Jesse Jackson
For me, the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn’t choose my media life. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:
It vexes me to choose another guide:
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side. — Emily Bronte
In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God. — Bernice King
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination. — Eugene Ionesco
When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides. — Wayne Dyer
Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides. — E. L. Konigsburg
It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be choosing is the side of America, and then politicians essentially should be arguing about the best way to serve America. — Trevor Noah
As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters and wind, and all things wild and of the Earth. On the other side, consumed with greed and in persuit of power, control and money, stand all the dark forces that lay waste to Her. — Rod Coronado
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. — Ted Kulongoski
I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama. — Dianne Wiest
Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides. — Lurlene McDaniel
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it. — C. S. Lewis
That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it. — C. S. Lewis
When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse. — Ben Nelson
God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom. — Desmond Tutu
Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? — Frank Herbert
Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose. — Langston Hughes
There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side — Nelson Mandela
I loved Dungeons & Dragons. Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief. — Michael Ian Black
And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football. — Dierks Bentley
A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement. — Roy H. Williams
Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one. — Jamaica Kincaid
Never make someone have to choose between your ways and the Lord's ways. And always make sure that you're making it easier to live God's commandments for those who are by your side and who are your friends. — Robert D. Hales
But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self. — Barbara Sher
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side. — Sarah MacLean
We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it! — Jeaniene Frost
So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly. — Fred Thompson
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides. — Dennis Rodman
I like to do different things and, as my actrees career evolves, I will choose roles to do things that I haven't done before. There are a lot of different sides of me, and I'm in a unique position now, for the first time in my career, to decide what direction I want to go in. — Alexandra Daddario
Unfortunately with certain situations, just sometimes it's just the way it is. It could be a problem with the promotion side or training or anything. Management, sometimes doesn't work out. Sometimes certain guys just choose to fight other guys. — Lamont Peterson
The New Birth church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to handle their leadership issues it's not something that we can control regardless of which side you stay on that issue. It is their church issue and their responsibility and their response. And I'm saying what I always said that we should just keep on praying for the New Birth church family. — T. D. Jakes
I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides. — Gaspar Noe
It's really a situation [ Donald Trump's children are involved now in choosing the next government] that no other president had in years and years. He clearly is not going to follow the idea that - generally there is no rule that requires this but there generally is a situation which people are required to put their interests to the side so they don't have a conflict. — Brian Ross
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