Social Backlash Quotes

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

I hate feminism. It is poison.

Questioning the ancestral gods [heroes] of any nation has never been an enterprise rewarded by anything save calumny.

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

Whenever I talk about Christ out loud, or I tweet a verse or say something in reference about Christ, a lot of people lash out and aren't very excited to hear about my love for Christ.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

The momentum for passage of the amendment has sort of worn out because it has already gone through in most of the states where it was natural …. There’s a natural backlash setting in towards the gains the women are making.

…every single count which came to trial “hurt the company altogether out of proportion to any punishment”; it produced “a wave of indignation…from one end of the land to the other”.

Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may be a natural part of population dynamics - not only are more people getting far older than ever before, but they are older for longer than they are young.

It's impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level.

Barack Obama was amazing, but he wasn't perfect. We all know that. He was the closest thing to perfect America's ever had. We were basking in the glow. We forgot that there's always going to be a backlash within a movement every time. When I think about race, there were a lot of pockets of people that were still living in fear under the Obama administration, but we were in this blissful celebration mode. Now we are constantly reminded that, although there are lots of good people in the world, there are just as many horrible people.

The way the Pak government treated me is only testimony to the ill treatment meted out to artistes. There was outrage against me. People were amazed that I had applied for citizenship in India. I don't give a damn about getting trolled. I have earned immense respect and love in India.

There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own lives. No doubt about it. And it is not a majority of the country, in any way, shape, or form. I know on the contraceptive issue, 70 percent of the country agrees with me. Will that stop my opponents? No. Because they are so radical. They chip away and chip away.

Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

This is what happens when you don't let gays marry; they start designing clothes out of spite.

I'm a hate figure for a certain kind of half-educated politically correct person.

I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

We have all said things that are offensive when taken out of context. You don't need to tell the public to be repelled. They will tell you they are repelled.

People get really turned off by feminism.