Top 200 Objection Quotes & Sayings

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

My objection is not that it's pro-gay but that it appears to be anti-marriage.

Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. An it isn't so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires - though a lot of churches are that, too. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.

We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.

I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.

I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Testimonials are the BEST way to beat down the price objection and win the sale.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

The Court's objection to cameras may be much more a product of history and process than an unwillingness to be placed in the public spotlight.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don't see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

Yisrael Beiteinu has no objection to the nonviolent expression of opinion. It is violent speech that forms a clear and present danger that we refuse to tolerate.

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.

Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled objection"? He says it was a "strategic blunder," like Nazi generals after Stalingrad.

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership.

I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.