"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
— Neutrality

January 1, 1970

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John F. Kennedy, misquoting Dante at the signing of a charter establishing the German Peace Corps, Bonn, West Germany (24 June 1963). Dante placed those who "non furon ribelli né fur fedeli" [were neither for nor against God] in a special region near the mouth of Hell; the lowest part of Hell, a lake of ice, was for traitors.