(378 quotes found)
“The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion”
Thomas Carlyle
“I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.”
Taslima Nasrin
“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 us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s”
Samuel Johnson
“I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.”
Lotte Lehmann
“Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.”
Shirin Ebadi
“Indeed, Madame, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea; I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched”
Jonathan Swift
“Me thinks he doth protest too much.”
William Shakespeare
“Chirac didn't hear the message. We now have more reason to protest.”
Bernard Thibault
“The government has to admit, in light of yesterday's protest, that this reform cannot be implemented in its current form.”
“Despite the arrests and violence, we consider today's protest a success, ... Two weeks before the vote, we can say that this country lacks conditions for holding democratic elections and the authorities are trying to imitate them.”
Ali Kerimli
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