Objection Quotes

122 quotes by 96 authors

Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection… — George Bernard Shaw
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting… — Benjamin Franklin
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group… — Milton Friedman
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical… — Benjamin Disraeli
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and… — Steve Earle
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in… — Francois Fenelon
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing… — James Fenton
The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any… — Tommy Lee Jones
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. — Marshall McLuhan
It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean… — River Phoenix
Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked… — John Sayles
The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But… — Andrew Weil
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work… — Julian Baggini
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. — Kurt Vonnegut
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as… — H. L. Mencken
Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again. — Ulrike Meinhof
Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness! — Jodi Picoult
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to… — Charles Bukowski
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet — Jane Austen
I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other… — Herman Melville

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