Backlash Quotes

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

— Kathy Acker

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

— Kanye West

I know how nasty backlash can be on the Internet.

— Zoe Quinn

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

— Ian Somerhalder

You get all these types of backlash for things you stand for.

— Breanna Stewart

I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

— Magic Johnson

I never receive backlash for my comments. I receive praise.

— Chael Sonnen

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

— Jo Brand

I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.

— Kat Graham

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

— Nina Jacobson

The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe.

— Michelle Alexander

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

— Eli Roth

When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.

— Scotty McCreery

Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash.

— Kameron Hurley

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

— Susan Faludi

We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash.

— Eric Reid

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from…

— Gloria Steinem

Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for…

— Margaret Thatcher

I probably get a bit more backlash in Australia than I do in America, to be honest. I was never invited to…

— Jim Jefferies

Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking.

— Jonathan Chait

I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some…

— Paul Bloom

I understand that there is always going to be backlash for something that is really popular. But I think especially because I…

— Anna Kendrick

The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president -…

— Eve Ensler

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

— Chris Hayes

If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask…

— Gloria Steinem

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in…

— Karl Rove

There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been…

— Ivan Reitman

God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any…

— William S. Burroughs

I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it…

— George Saunders

Our countries are weaker: they cannot protect us from imported goods, they can't protect us from climate change, they cannot protect us…

— Mohsin Hamid

The level of backlash [for the True Detective] was kind of fascinating and not fully shocking because I know what the world…

— Colin Farrell

It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review…

— Rick Perlstein

“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an…

— Geoffrey Miller

I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't…

— Michelle Alexander

“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are…

— Judith Lewis Herman

It's important to teach students about the reality of the system, that it is in fact the case that they are being…

— Michelle Alexander

“Some of the leaders of the backlash said their name was an acronym for “Taxed Enough Already.” Maybe this was true at…

— David Litt

What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s…

— Stephen Marche

Everything I say, I expect backlash from it.

— Donovan McNabb

There's backlash about everything I do.

— Lana Del Rey