Protest Quotes

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

All literature is protest.

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

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

We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.

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

The truest protest is beauty.

Passionately protest mediocrity.

I caution anyone who in their protest becomes the very thing that they're protesting against. Meaning turning to hateful speech, violating principles and ideals that are sacred in America. We need to raise our voices, but we do not need to indulge in hate.

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

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

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

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

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

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

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE!

The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.

Art is a protest against death.

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend.

The Establishment is always against protest.

Putin needs to terrorize his own elite. He is more afraid of those in his own surroundings than any protests; there are people there who are at least as critical as I am because they see up close that the system doesn't work. He wants to silence them.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans." And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.

What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you.

I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do feel Godflesh is a protest music of sorts. That was the background that I came from.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

I don't really know a lot about these 'anti-protest' laws. I'm only vaguely aware of them, but I don't have enough detailed knowledge about them to comment.

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

Alexei Navalny, the opposition politician who has led anti-corruption protests, had a blog about a credit line to a company owned by Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, $1.75 billion from Russian state funds; this is one transaction. Putin controls more money directly and indirectly than any individual in human history.