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Quotes About Protest

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
~ Dick Gregory
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
~ George Orwell
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
~ George Orwell
the mute protest in your own bones
~ George Orwell
Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.
~ George Orwell
And even when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
~ George Orwell
It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the middle of the night and are never heard of again. Without a free press and the right of assembly, it is impossible not merely to appeal to outside opinion, but to bring a mass movement into being, or even to make your intentions known to your adversary. Is there a Gandhi in Russia at this moment? And if there is, what is he accomplishing?
~ George Orwell
The people chased the Conservative candidate half a mile and threw him into a pond full of duckweed. People took politics seriously in those days. They used to begin storing up rotten eggs weeks before an election.
~ George Orwell
To be marching up the street behind red flags inscribed with elevating slogans, and then to be bumped off from an upper window by some total stranger with a sub-machine-gun—that is not my idea of a useful way to die.
~ George Orwell
Hasta que no tomen conciencia no se rebelarán, y sin rebelarse no podrán tomar conciencia.
~ George Orwell
The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.
~ George Orwell
Dickens hardly writes of war, even to denounce it.
~ George Orwell
In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his
~ George Orwell
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN
~ George Orwell
they'll shoot me I dont care they'll shoot me in the back of the neck I dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck I dont care down with big brother
~ George Orwell
It was a formidable cry of anger … Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?
~ George Orwell
Always in your stomach and in  your  skin  there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to.
~ George Orwell
You're only a rebel from the waist downwards," he told her.
~ George Orwell
Hasta que no tomen conciencia no se rebelaran, y sin rebelarse no podran tomar conciencia.
~ George Orwell
Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to.
~ George Orwell
That what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.
~ George S. Clason
what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.
~ George S. Clason
That what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.
~ George S. Clason
We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.
~ George W. Bush