Top 193 Backlash Quotes & Sayings

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is a parodic recreation of the destruction of traditional masculinity. Look at these hollow men. Look at Steve Bannon who wears sweat pants, who doesn't shave. Or Yiannopoulos who is just a clown. This is toxic masculinity. It's new. To see it as a return to the past is a mistake. It's the breakdown of traditional masculinity, rather than its retrenchment.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.

Just days after Mitt Romney suggested he might run for president, there's been a backlash. The backlash is led by Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, and just to hedge his bets on every issue, Mitt Romney.

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

I don't think I've ever heard anybody in this Regime counsel restraint and advise, "No backlash against cops. We must maintain the order."

I find that, often, when I tell people what pronoun I use, I don't get a lot of backlash. I'm really lucky in that respect.

The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.

Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.

Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood.

When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

Every time a militant Islamist terrorist shoots somebody up, what does Barack Obama do and the Democrats? They come out and they demand that there be no backlash against Muslims. So any time a police officer shoots a black suspect - without knowing why, without knowing the circumstances - why doesn't Obama stand up and warn against a backlash against cops? If we are to guard against backlash against Muslim shooters, where is the sameness?

There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.

I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The other thing that the backlash is against is the sense that politicians have been bought and sold.

There is always backlash. Everything gets backlash.

I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.

I know how nasty backlash can be on the Internet.

I get so much backlash in Hollywood.

I'm not afraid to tell people what I hope to accomplish and what I believe I'm capable of. I'm ready to take the backlash if I don't accomplish my dreams.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

Iraq lacks leaders capable of soothing sectarian wounds, and Western attempts to pick them or force their hand invite anti-imperialist backlash.

When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

From day one, we've always gotten backlash for certain outlandish ideas that we've had and presented. That's also kind of been the driving force that's pushed us forward.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

Everything I say, I expect backlash from it.

I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

When 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' came out, there was a certain backlash - 'Well, this isn't 'The Devil's Highway.'' That's just the way it goes.

To forget that the EPA was borne out of public demand is to invite a real backlash.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.

We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash.

There's backlash about everything I do.

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

When contrarian voices are elevated to publications once viewed as places where contending ideas shared space, organized online backlash is now inevitable.