Protest Quotes

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest

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

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.

People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

The truest protest is beauty.

My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

I want to be a voice for my people and I will continue to protest.

Passionately protest mediocrity.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

I worry that a Trump presidency doesn't show the true face of America to the world, but I think that peaceful protest all around this country, it showed to the world who we really are.

I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.

I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

You can protest, you can protest peacefully, but keep things civil.

It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.