Abuse Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

— Ulrike Meinhof

Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation…

— Learned Hand

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

— Paul Watson

If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire,…

— Ulrike Meinhof

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all…

— Alan Moore

Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'… Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place

— Ulrike Meinhof

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of…

— Howard Zinn

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

— Norman Lear

I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do…

— William Powell

It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the…

— Albert Camus

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

— Aristotle

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

— William O. Douglas