Non Alignment Quotes

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none.

I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

We are not a superpower like the U.S. We are a small and neutral country.

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

I try to avoid political ties.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.

India is a proud and sovereign country. We do not take any decisions under pressure from the U.S. or any other power.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so.

I'm not a partisan.

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.

If you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all.

I have no political affiliations and have always and do now consider myself an independent.

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

Our neutrality is our security.

A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other.

I am not a pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant judge.

I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this, it has a tranquilizing, paralyzing effect. Artists are individuals. They have ideas, and the conventions for one's self as an individual are not for a group. There are always those who follow the group, but they belong in the margins. I refuse to be placed within, or added to, one particular school.