Militant Quotations

What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them.

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

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

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

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

I'm really diligent; I have a really militant side of my personality that comes out in areas of work. I'm very motivated, you know?

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.

If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

Many of these schools and mosques are doing good work to help Pakistan's poor. But some of them seem only to exist to teach militant jihad.

Militant kingpins will not be arrested as the process of granting general amnesty to militants is underway.

Secretary McHale had a very militant message, which provided some interesting insight, especially for the civilians.

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

Our information is that he (Rusdan) was more militant and the hardliners of JI had turned to him for leadership,

It is not possible. There has never been even a political gathering of students in Al Azhar, let alone militant training.

I was militant about the vocals. I really beat that dead horse.

We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was not there.

There are those who support the idea that a bigger turnout would give the centre-left an advantage, given that this bloc certainly comprises more militant voters.

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

Those organizations don't want the movement to radicalize. They don't want immigrants and the rest of society to come forth in a militant way and demand their rights.

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.

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

Islamic churches can be militant fronts. This has been brought up in the past with Islamic churches.

When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria that could pose a threat to the United States, not just Khorasan.

Quill was militant but he often blustered and then settled at the last minute. Quill also was everywhere in city politics. Roger Toussaint has not been that kind of presence.

We have seen the statement about the militant incursions across Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

This is a more militant union that most public sector unions. These workers face on a daily basis far more difficult working conditions than the standard government employee. The workers as a group feel management is too heavy-handed. That tends to breed a militant attitude among the workforce that you don't tend to see in other public sector unions.

''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

Indications are that extremist and militant organizations could be involved in the blast.

In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic militant known as Abu Ghadiya. He was accused of being one of al Qaeda in Iraq's main smugglers of fighters and money between Iraq and Syria.

It's called Fort Minor instead of my name because there is a bunch of other people involved in the project. But I only wanted to work with family and friends; people who I feel are really close to me and we see eye-to-eye. Besides that, Fort has a militant meaning and Minor in music is a smaller, darker, sadder note, so the name is a reflection of the music.

They are not selfish people, they are not using any excuse to call 'strike' and have a day off -- they are asking simply for what they have paid for and what they deserve. This immoral behavior from employers is the very reason our members are angry and frustrated. They are not militant as a rule but they have no choice other than to strike.

It's a matter that many governments have taken strong positions on. There's been a reaction in the region, been a lot of threats made by some of the militant groups.

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.

It's too early to conclude if he's a member of any Muslim militant group. The bomb was not ready to go but it could be assembled easily.

For long, the two unmanned borders have presented opportunity to forces inimical to the country's interest to further their nefarious designs through subversion, militant and fundamentalist activities.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

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

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

The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

To the militant, identity is everything.

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

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