Mario Vargas Llosa
Novelist, Essayist
"Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life."
Protest quotes
Protest
71 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell."
Richard Wright
Author
"All literature is protest."
Emile Zola
Novelist
"My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest."
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"The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history."
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"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."
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"You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself."
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"Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest."
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"Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil."
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"In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint."
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"Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy."
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"Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?"
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"It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)"
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"Before the church responded, a lot of people would ask us, 'Are you afraid of what the church would say?' And Trey and I were like, 'They're going to be cool.' And they were like, 'No, they're not. There are going to be protests.' And we were like, 'Nope, they're going to be cool.' We weren't that surprised by the church's response. We had faith in them."
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"If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against."
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"I protest against any absolute conclusion."
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"the mute protest in your own bones"
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"After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators."
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"A person always has a chance to protest this or that."
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"It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better."
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