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“To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.”

Men Life Made Faith Prayer Decision Existence He Man Protest Consent Unbelievers

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.”

Men Form Wise Protest Sage Hostile Novelty

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.”

Knows Children Delight Protest Mirth Giggle

Author:Roald Dahl

“The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.”

Ifs Men Way Believe May Stills Sex Opposites Universal Impression Privacy Exception Protest Old Man Inexplicable Never Stop Believing

Book:Poems and prose

Source: Poems and prose

“The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.”

Use Seems Violence Instruments Protest Persuasion Inviting

Book:POINTS OF REBELLION

Source: POINTS OF REBELLION

“Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.”

“Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.”

Ideas Culture Literature Born Loss Generations Modern England Realization Protest Rebellion Formal New Generation New England American Literature

Book:On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature

Source: On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature

“The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.”

Humans Society Development Conscience Capitalism Tragedy Democratic Conviction Tyranny Sensitive Protest Steady Ugliness Human Development

Book:ON NATIVE GROUNDS An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature

Source: ON NATIVE GROUNDS An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature

“Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.”

Ifs Needs Spiritual Too Much Cost Stones Silent Oppression Protest Throwing Bullets Oppressed Persistent Terrific Dissatisfaction Oppressors

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s.”

War America Political Party Race Events Movement Rage Tea Protest Anti War 1960s Demonstration Riot Tea Party Anti War Movement Outside Looking In Tea Party Movement Race Riots

Author:Jonathan Raban

“Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There are three ways in which one can deal with an injustice. (a) One can accept it without protest. (b) On can seek to avoid it. (c) One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.”

Way Believe Political Three Politics I Believe Deals Accepting Injustice Remove Protest Segregation Three Ways

Author:Bayard Rustin

“The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.”

Giving Song Nice Harmony Fingers Protest Complaints Components Pointing Nice Things Sociable Pointing Fingers Fussing Protest Songs

Author:Nicholson Baker

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

Way Action Protest Discontent Kremlin

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I was involved in some peaceful protests.”

Involved Peaceful Protest Peaceful Protest

Author:Todd Akin

“The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.”

Way Politician Weak Britain Protest Load Booing

Author:Alastair Campbell

“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.”

Church Addresses Protest Scotland Assembly Edinburgh General Assembly

Author:Douglas Alexander

“There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.”

People Ifs Artist Advertising Protest Beneficial

Author:Giorgio Armani

“I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.”

Different Country Play Stuff Style Quiet Fingers Western Guitar Loud Protest Electric Psychedelic Acoustics Different Styles Electric Guitar

Author:Eugene Chadbourne

“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.”

Protest Mutual This Day Division September Promoting September 11 Mutual Respect September 11th Promoting Peace

Author:Timothy M. Dolan

“There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.”

Peaceful Protest Peaceful Protest

Author:Russ Feingold

“The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune against the expression of protest and refusal.”

Way Political Culture Style Expression Communication Opposites Protest Discourse Refusal Immune Unification

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.”

People Thinking Made War Song Laughing Streets Importance Angry Iraq Israel Protest Gaza Against War Gaza Strip Happy Music Protest Songs

Author:Michael Franti

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

Mean Hell Protest

Author:Chico Hamilton

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