Protest Against Quotes
69 quotes by 66 authors
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
— Albert Camus
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You…
— Cesare Pavese
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Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of…
— Karl Marx
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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.
— Richard Littlejohn
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Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
— Camille Paglia
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Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human…
— Adolf Hitler
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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of…
— Elie Wiesel
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When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off…
— William James
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There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego…
— Walter Benjamin
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It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
— Craig Reucassel
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I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
— Alexander Herzen
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Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead…
— George Grosz
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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance,…
— Ellen Wilkinson
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I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature…
— James Terry White
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There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types…
— Martha Smith
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