Militant Quotes - Page 7

• Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.

  R. H. Tawney

  Vices, Virtue, Efficient

  R. H.Tawney (1998). “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism”, p.226, Transaction Publishers

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• Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Wall, Miracle, Atheism

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• I'm bad at thinking about society. I love to make fun of very small aspects. For instance the privacy rules we have in the States. Where you sign this thing that you've never read, and if you ever read it you discover there's no privacy whatsoever. But I don't know how to think sociologically, to tell you the truth. My son is a political scientist and my daughter-in-law is a sociologist. I can't think that way. I am not a good political militant at all. I keep thinking about what the other side must look like.

  Lore Segal

  Fun, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Vanity, Depth

  Elizabeth Bowen (1949). “The cat jumps, and other stories”

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• I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Atheist, Mean, Fighting

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• There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

  Meghan Daum

  Silly, Feminist, Definitions

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• Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge to improve life, and a sense of awe before the mysteries of existence. However, by the standards of conventional religion, Dewey was an atheist.

  James A. Haught

  Religious, Atheist, Compassion

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• Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you as “militant.” The reason is clear: religion occupies a privileged place in our society. Attacking it is off-limits, although going after other supernatural or paranormal beliefs like ESP, homeopathy, or political worldviews is not. Accommodationism is not meant to defend science, which can stand on its own, but to show that in some way religion can still make credible claims about the world.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Political, Enemy, Esp

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• Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Believe, Cutting

  "October 2006 Interview: Bell Hooks". Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October 2006.

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• And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Loyalty, Military, Reality

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• Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Organization, Two

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.133, tredition

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• So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Half, Earth

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.228

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• Militant homosexuals, pro-abortionists, occultists, New Agers, pornographers, radical feminists, atheists, paganists and a whole collection of angry anti-Christian groups are all coming out of their closets and onto the battlefield. Their common denominator is a hatred for Christianity and for any expression of traditional values.

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

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• The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Believe, Race, History

  "Islamic State changes battle protocols in response to airstrikes". "AM" with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. September 30, 2014.

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• Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Attitude, People, Chivalry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.

  Muriel Beadle

  Heart, University Students, Self

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• Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Feminist

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• A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Party, Men, Civilization

  "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 17), 1952.

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• I'm not a militant lesbian. I carry myself in a way that makes it easier for women to relate to. I can be your best girlfriend.

  Jackie Warner

  Girlfriend, Way, Easier

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving 'automated war' and 'war-at-a-distance' is also terribly weak in the face of terrorism. For instance, in such situations, any individual who decides to place or throw a bomb can simply walk away. He or she has the freedom to move. This also applies to militant political groups and their actions.

  Paul Virilio

  Distance, War, Moving

  Source: ctheory.net

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• In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront the enemy directly, was a sign of weakness. The decision to confront the United States in 1963-1965 was a tacit recognition that Ho's approach had failed.

  William J. Duiker

  Decision, Enemy, Weakness

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Even though the American Indian Movement on a national-international scale has proven to be extremely dysfunctional, the American Indian Movement I was associated with I'm very proud of. We were a revolutionary, militant organization whose purpose was spirituality first, and that's how I want to be remembered.

  Russell Means

  Organization, Movement, Want

  Source: progressive.org

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• Like I say, if [Barack] Obama really, really wanted to use the law to stop acts of militant terrorism, he would get hold of the architects of Sharia, as the American president, and he'd say, "You know, you guys, you're gonna have to moderate this. This is not good. It's not right."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Guy, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people and mostly I didn't. That should have been a clue to me. The people I talked to were not, on the surface level, crazy. They were quite nice, quite normal, employed, and actually were wealthier than the press at that time would have led us to believe. At that time, the narrative was that these were all working poor but these were not working poor. That should've been a clue to me that this was a little bigger than I thought.

  George Saunders

  Running, Crazy, Nice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Chinese view us as an enemy, very, very militant toward the United States, and I don't even think the United States knows it.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Views, Chinese

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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