Protesting Quotes

76 quotes by 70 authors

What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let… — Samuel Johnson
I'm always happy when I'm protesting. — Richard Stallman
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. — Ben Jonson
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. — Martin Sheen
The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on… — Marshall McLuhan
Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war… — Ernest Istook
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. — Siegfried Sassoon
To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us… — Wendell Berry
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please… — Craig Reucassel
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. — Sam Brownback
My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution… — Camille
The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of… — Dennis Miller
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess. — Diana Trilling
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her… — Janet Frame
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the… — Terry Eagleton
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting. — Karen Bass
I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can… — Chico Hamilton
I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist Iâ€™m privileged in… — Nancy Spero
When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down… — Barack Obama
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it… — Desiderius Erasmus

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