Militant Quotes
More Militant Quotes
Tulsi acquired the title ‘Gosaim’ (goswami or ‘lord’), which is normally applied to a sectarian leader , through his militant struggle against the forces of Kali Yug.
— Gautam Candrik quoted in "According to Tradition: Hagiographical Writing in India", p. 81
Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth.
— Holy Communion, Introduction to Prayer for the Church militant.
Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.
william morris— 1893 Addressing Hammersmith Socialist Society.
The recruiting field for the militant suffragists is the million of our excess female populationthat million whichhad better long ago have gone out tomate with its complement of men beyond the sea.
SirAlmroth Edward Wright— 1912 Letter to TheTimes, 28 Mar.
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— Cited in Ussr and Countries of Africa
He became a Roman Catholic, but an unpleasantly militant one, sharing the hysterically nihilist mood of some of the fascist rebels in Spain... He himself was no fascist, simply a naïve who lamented – but without ever bothering to take serious thought – modern technology’s erosion of individuality.
roy campbell— Martin Seymour-Smith, Guide to Modern World Literature (1973) [London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975], vol. 1, p. 387
There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.
calvin coolidge— The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses, Coolidge, The Minerva Group (2001), p. 159
— Acceptance of the Memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant (27 April 1922)
Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair— "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray", Playboy (October 1965)
I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.
jesse owens— I Have Changed (1972)
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality.
roger scruton— "Why I became a conservative," The New Criterion (February 2003).
Debates and parliamentary divisions are fruitless cosmetic exercises given the Tories' present Commons majority. And if we recognise this, we are either forced to accept Tory edicts as a fait accompli or we must look to new more militant forms of extra-Parliamentary opposition which involve mass popular participation and challenge the Government's right to rule.
peter tatchell— Article in London Labour Briefing, November 1981. When quoted in the House of Commons, Labour Party leader Michael Foot denounced him as the Labour candidate for Bermondsey. Source: Tatchell, The Battle for Bermondsey (Heretic Books, 1983) page 53.
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— pp. 226 (Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926))
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish.
wystan hugh auden— Lines 56-58 (September 1, 1939 (1939))
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein— Interview with George Sylvester Viereck (January 1931)
Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
felix frankfurter— Dissenting, Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 270 (1962).
Socialism , whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler , Stalin , Mao , or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation , a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism , as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism , no individuality , and ultimately, no individuation .
l. neil smith— "Back to the Trees!"
In the eighteenth century, freemasonry became expressive of a militant policy of enlightenment, as in the case of the Illuminati , who were the forerunners of revolution; on its left, it culminated in the Carbonari .
— Leon Trotsky, in My Life, Chapter 8 : My First Prisons
Not even when the political freedom of a nation is at stake should the Christian militant make use of an unchristian weapon. The following of Jesus Christ is infinitely more important than the maintenance of political liberty at the expense of his principles.
— Ch.6 p.100 (The Sword or the Cross, Which Should be the Weapon of the Christian Militant? (1921))
Through the centuries, the Gita has remained a relevant text, inspiring militant revolutionaries, non-violent truth-seekers and renouncers of the world. It has enlightened German philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Heidegger ; it has inspired Victorian poets such as Sir Edwin Arnold; and it has grounded post-Independence philosophers such as Sarvapelli Radhakrishnan. It has become a literary 'site' which decision-makers turn to to understand their dilemmas, whether they be Indian women and men leading Gandhi 's satyagraha , twenty-first-century South Asian-American officers deciding to go to war in the Gulf, or London housewives with their children deciding how to organize their day.
— Laurie L. Patton, "The Bhagavad Gita", Penguin Classics, 2008, Introduction.
The new cooperation [between Hezbollah and al-Qaeda] ... includes coordination on explosives and tactics training, money laundering, weapons smuggling and acquiring forged documents, according to knowledgeable sources. This new alliance, even if informal, has greatly concerned U.S. officials in Washington and intelligence operatives abroad who believe the assets and organization of Hezbollah's formidable militant wing will enable a hobbled al Qaeda network to increase its ability to launch attacks against American targets.
— From the Washington Post; Priest, Dana and Douglas Farah. "Terror Alliance Has U.S. Worried." 30 June 2002. 18 September 2006.
I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. The term describes any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism. I often use it to describe women who are obsessed with perpetuating a modern-day holocaust: abortion.
— Rush Limbaugh, in The Way Things Ought To Be, 1992.
What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us what convictions, what courage, what faith win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
— Adlai Stevenson, in an address to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois (21 July 1952); published in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952), p. 17
Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.
daniel pipes— Voices of Islam, New York Post, September 23, 2003.
