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Quotes About Objectionable

To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No .
~ Walter Kaufmann
Now, Rowsby Woof was the man's dog; and he was the most objectionable, malicious, disgusting brute that ever licked a man's hand. He
~ Richard Adams
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.
~ Robert Briffault
We deal, unfortunately, every single day with leaders of countries who are responsible for actions we find either objectionable or abhorrent, whether it's Vladimir Putin, whether it's Xi Jinping, whether it's any others on a long list of people I can name. But we find ways to deal with them.
~ Antony Blinken
It's a stereotype that Jews run Hollywood. Guess what? It's true. Jews do run Hollywood. It's a stereotype that many Jews are wealthy. Guess what? Many Jews are wealthy. And there's nothing objectionable in the image. What's unflattering about Jews rising out of oppression and poverty and making it to big success?
~ Bryan Fogel
The I&B Ministry, at their own convenience, can't pick and choose content in serials. We have weird commercials with a lot of objectionable content running on TV post 11 P.M., but nothing has been done to stop them?
~ Vikrant Massey
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
However, it does seem theologically objectionable to think God's attitude toward us would change in anything like this manner merely because we had died. There is no obvious reason why justice requires God to cease having mercy at death and to punish those who have not repented by that time.
~ Jerry L. Walls
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.
~ Jefferson Davis
The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.
~ Greg Gutfeld
The prospect of many new states formed out of the West should make New Jersey pause; these states would undoubtedly enter the Union "when they contained but few inhabitants. If they should be entitled to vote according to their proportions of inhabitants, all would be right and safe." But let them "have an equal vote, and a more objectionable minority than ever might give law to the whole.
~ Robert Middlekauff
ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
~ Ambrose Bierce
One of the most extraordinary examples of adaptation to immaturity in contemporary American society today is how the word abusive has replaced the words nasty and objectionable.
~ Edwin H. Friedman
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
~ Robert Kennedy
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
~ B.F. Skinner
The only threat is a growing pushback from militant liberals who seek to destroy free expression as they look to limit the speech of anyone who has feelings they find objectionable. It makes comics tentative to push boundaries and freely talk about the thoughts in their heads. That part is terrible for development.
~ Ari Shaffir
Abuse from those who occasionally praise is considered to be personally offensive, and they who give personal offence will sometimes make the world too hot to hold them. But censure from those who are always finding fault is regarded so much as a matter of course that it ceases to be objectionable. The
~ Anthony Trollope
the process of dreaming transfers psychical intensity from what is important, but also objectionable, onto what is insignificant.
~ Sigmund Freud
My dear queen," said he, "duplicity of any sort is exceedingly objectionable between married people of any rank, not to say kings and queens; and the most objectionable form duplicity can assume is that of punning." MacDonald, George. The Light Princess: and Other Fairy Stories (Kindle Locations 193-195). Dancing Unicorn Books. Kindle Edition.
~ George MacDonald
Some superscholars of the day such as Origen tried to resolve the problems in more sophisticated ways, but these views also led to ideas that were later deemed objectionable, such as the view that all of us have souls that preexisted and were brought into the world as a form of punishment.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
There is no shortage of objectionable Iranian behavior.
~ Antony Blinken
The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.
~ Janet Evanovich
Censorship, by definition, is suppression of objectionable material that can be harmful or inconvenient. Since when has it become inconvenient or dangerous for a young woman to be confused in love?
~ Kanika Dhillon
Donald Trump may occasionally say things that are controversial or even objectionable to some, but those are words.
~ Tom Cotton