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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. -- Agnes Repplier
Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others. -- Richard Perle
Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. -- Louis D. Brandeis
The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity. -- Paul Michael Glaser
Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching. -- Bart Gordon
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method. -- Max Born
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. -- Ambrose Bierce
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. -- Robert Kennedy
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way. -- Jim Garrison
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds. -- Gene Robinson
We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society. -- Hal Holbrook
Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why. -- Bill Bixby
Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy. -- Dan Harmon
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity. -- Annie Besant
Unfortunately, we are living in an era where plenty of songs with vulgar, objectionable lyrics are also becoming popular. It's a disturbing trend, and I feel really sad when I see small kids dancing to such numbers in television shows. In my career so far, I have refused any song whose lyrics I haven't been comfortable with. -- Shreya Ghoshal
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished. -- Jefferson Davis
Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable. -- Kevin Sessums
[Donald] Trump's views are objectionable, hateful, but they are not something I dreamt up in my own head. -- Kwasi Kwarteng
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. -- Thomas Carlyle
All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this. -- Kurt Vonnegut
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another. -- Ambrose Bierce
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government. -- Robert Briffault
It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable. -- Joshua K. Ingalls
me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three. -- Ambrose Bierce
[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional. -- Edward Snowden
People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable. -- Vance Havner
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force. -- B. F. Skinner
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable. -- John Maynard Keynes
Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring. -- Margaret Sanger
Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether. -- Victor Davis Hanson
Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd. -- Henry Blodget
Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well. -- Gary L. Francione

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