Top 258 Militant Quotes & Sayings

Many people feel that unions aren't militant enough for them and don't do anything.

Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

To the militant, identity is everything.

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

I was a militant.

For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

I'm very militant, you know, in a quite way.

I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.

I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.

I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one.

Virulent anti-Semitism is, of course, a staple of militant Islamist ideology.

Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

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.

It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.

Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

To militant Islamists, the expulsion of the Soviets was just the prelude to purging the entire Islamic world of infidels.

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.

I'm not a militant lesbian. I carry myself in a way that makes it easier for women to relate to. I can be your best girlfriend.

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly to be a militant atheist.

All I can tell you is that Israel's position in the Arab world has changed because they no longer see Israel as their enemy, but as their ally, in their indispensable battle against the forces of militant Islam, either those led by Iran, the Shiites, or - and those led by Daesh - by ISIS, the militant Sunnis.

I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

Female politicos mostly represent a rather militant faction.

What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian.

We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

I do yoga and Pilates, but I'm not militant about it.

From the start, Trump's rallies had the air of the tent revival, that same hot thrum of militant exorcism and ecstasy.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

We are not a nation of strikes and inaction. We will not be preached at by militant unionists with a crap whippet and a chip on each shoulder.