Militant Quotes

"`My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman. I`ve never thought of myself as vain. When I was at Cambridge, I shaved my head and wore baggy clothes. What I did was to desexualise myself. It was partly to do with the feminism of that time: militant and grungy. That`s all changed now, though I don`t think it is liberating to get your tits out. I don`t hold with that. But I am much more comfortable with being a woman now than I was in my twenties."

I am militant about drugs. You want to do `em? You`re out of my life.

Men make angry music and it`s called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they`re angry and militant.

Mainstream America is depending on you - counting on you - to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time or resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it`s a divine duty for women to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand, while they seek preference with the other.

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

Fort` is something that`s heavy and militant. `Minor` is taken one of two ways: either meaning small or meaning ... between the two basic chords in music theory, you`ve got major or minor, and minor is described as the darker, sadder chord. The album is about the dynamic when you put all those things together. You`ve got that spectrum.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

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

Five years from now, 10 years from now, there`s going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they`re going to be nationalistic, they`re going to be religious, and they`re going to be militant.

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

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

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.

We can`t allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.