Militant Quotes - Page 2

• I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

  Pierre Loti

  Wish, Desire, Missionary

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• The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Funny, Religious, Humorous

  "The Monstrosity of Christ : Paradox or Dialectic?". Book by Creston Davis, 2009.

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• Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Years, Savages

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• And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

  Norman McLaren

  Philosophy, Simple, Delight

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• I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss what is true and to listen to evidence and put evidence forward to other people and have a sensible, sane, moderated argument.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Wish, Passionate

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. March 7, 2010.

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• Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspirational, Motivational, Anger

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• Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.

  Dennis Brown

  Heartbroken, Song, Hurt

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• After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.

  Frank Gaffney

  War, America, Islam

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• ...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts, if I can put it bluntly, than violence. Most violent acts are accomplished by getting the opponent off guard, and it doesn't take that much character, I think, if one wants to do it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• ... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Peace, War, Passion

  Mary Heaton Vorse, Dee Garrison (1985). “Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse”, Monthly Review Pr

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• Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of our line in international affairs.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Struggle, Important, Elements

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• I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hurt, Atheist, People

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• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  Cara Buono

  Men, Mad, Sopranos

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Military, Stupidity, Intellect

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.175, 谷月社

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• I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.

  Orson Scott Card

  Europe, America, Doubt

  "Interview with Orson Scott Card Part 2". Interview with Jérôme Vincent, www.actusf.com.

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• Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes. No matter how far back you go in history, along with the struggle for existence, along with the survival necessities - kill or be killed, eat or be eaten - there is a hunger for something spiritual. He invents God, prayers, incantations to something above him. Why? This is not brought out - this is not weapon culture.

  Frank Capra

  Spiritual, Prayer, Struggle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Moral, Fortitude

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

  Michel Foucault

  Fighting, Thinking, Order

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• Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Men, Choices

  "The Way Things Ought to Be" by Rush Limbaugh, Pocket Books, (p. 52), October 1992.

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• I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Country, Atheist

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• The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Distance, Home

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.138, Barbour Publishing

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• In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. Never before have the masses of the people been so inspired, so militant and so daring as at present.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Mean, Ideas

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Long, Liberty

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.31, Best Books on

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• We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Christian, Atheist, Struggle

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• The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

  W. H. Auden

  Heart, Men, Errors

  "September 1, 1939" l. 59 (1939)

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