Blatant Quotes

#1. If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Jimmy Wales

#2. [Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore "holy" wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry.

Gregory A. Boyd

#3. The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Angela Merkel

#4. I don't think there is a question as to whether or not I want you, because that is painfully blatant right now, but did I miss you? It was so much more than that. And do I need you? Yes. I need you. My heart needs you, Delilah.

Lindy Zart

#5. What has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

Dale Spender

#6. I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice,

Illmaculate

#7. It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Jean Rostand

#8. I suppose the spiritual trance is harder to break than the religious one because the delusion is more difficult to distinguish. You have a quasi-cloud of ideas that include wonderful concepts of openness and altruism without the blatant anthropomorphism of religion.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#9. I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude.

Karen Abbott

#10. The advent of postmodernism, the enshrinement of Darwinian orthodoxy in the educational systems of Western society, and the rise of blatant humanism as the religion-by-default of large subcultures have brought no end of new challenges to biblical sufficiency.

James R. White

#11. There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.

Virginia Foxx

#12. If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.

Corrine Brown

#13. Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore even the most blatant racism by blacks against others.

Thomas Sowell

#14. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Charles Studd

#15. Is Chris Rock still gonna host the Oscars after this blatant racism?? Is everyone still gonna show up??

Tyrese Gibson

#16. The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News.

Bill Maher

#18. President Trumps election speaks volumes about the blatant failures of the Obama administration.

Steven Magee

#19. Keep Your servant from willful sins; do not let them rule over me. Then I will be innocent, and cleansed from blatant rebellion. Psalm 19:13

Beth Moore

#20. Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

Christopher Hitchens

#21. There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

Diane Abbott

#22. The blatant harassment of electromagnetic radiation researchers should be expected to be a feature of transitioning out of the energy based economies.

Steven Magee

#23. Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake it for the genuine article.

Nathan Poe

#24. Love couldn't be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies - skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn't deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same.

Rachael Wade

#25. I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.

Cate Marvin

#26. Love has a way of making us stupid, Will Henry. It blinds us to certain blatant realities, in this case the spectacularly high mortality rate among monstrumologists. Rarely do we live past forty - my father and von Helrung being the exceptions.

Rick Yancey

#27. One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

Thomas S. Monson

#28. The disconnect between [offensive coordinator] Todd Haley and [quarterback] Ben Roethlisberger is so blatant you can just see it.

Marshall Faulk

#29. For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.

Asa Don Brown

#30. There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

Kurt Huber

#31. I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.

Wale

#32. The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of
blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute
contempt for the concept of international law.

Harold Pinter

#33. Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

Oswald Chambers

#34. What," Scarlet breathed, clutching the bouquet, "is this?"
Wolf smiled around his canine teeth. "You are the most beautiful sight I have ever laid eyes on."
Scarlet cocked her head. "And you look like you're about to get married." There was blatant amusement in her tone.

Marissa Meyer

#35. Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

Jess Walter

#36. It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Richard Dreyfuss

#37. But it was hard work making suggestions and not blatant declarations with her ever-changing Puerto Rican body.

Daniel Jose Older

#38. I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

Jason Patric

#39. Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.

Tawni O'Dell

#40. Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it

Thomas Sowell

#41. It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic global warming.

Stanley B. Goldenberg

#42. Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

Sathya Sai Baba

#43. Cheating is more than betrayal. It's letting a selfish, physical need take over with blatant disregard for the other person's feelings, as if they're of no value.

S.E. Hall

#44. Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

Corrie Ten Boom

#45. Rampant male predator'," Simon said, shaking his head. "Blatant, Archer."

"Would you prefer 'alpha male'?" Jeremy asked. "I do occasionally feel the urge to roll over and expose my belly in submission, after all - "

"Christ, don't do it now, I'm wiped out.

M. Chandler

#46. As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.

Lana Del Rey

#47. A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.

Jimmy Carter

#48. Well, there's nothing like trying to fool yourself into believing something that's a blatant lie.

Giovanna Fletcher

#49. Paul's secret joy was that God took him as a blatant rebel against Jesus Christ, and made him a captive - and that became his purpose.

Oswald Chambers

#50. Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.

Rob Bishop

#51. Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

Rue McClanahan

#52. Popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.

Lindsey Davis

#53. Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapted as obligate carnivores, This means the vegetarian cat is an oxymoron at best and a blatant lie at worst. Cats need meat. The concept of a Garden of Eden would be rather atrocious to them.

Leviak B. Kelly

#54. Sin is blatant mutiny against God.

Oswald Chambers

#55. I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant ... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

Sidney Poitier

#56. Putting aside your blatant patriarchal biases in assuming the necessary presence of a male familial figurehead, yes, I had a nice brunch, thanks.

Julie James

#57. For young women and men who had never seen blatant misogyny before, who had never heard a woman called a "cunt" or seen the size of a senator's thighs referred to on a T-shirt, these in-your-face examples of gender-based resistance to Hillary were eye-opening.

Rebecca Traister

#58. Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#59. What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

James Joyce

#60. God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!

Joss Sheldon

#61. The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.

Wole Soyinka

#62. We're [with Ilana Glazer] both totally upfront and proud feminists. We're not being all secretive about it. I feel like we're pretty blatant in our approach.

Ilana Glazer

#63. This wasn't just another company - this was the biggest company by far making subprime loans. And it was engaged in just blatant fraud. They should have taken the CEO out and hung him up by his fucking testicles.

Michael Lewis

#64. 'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have said, and it's incredible how mean critics can be about comedies ... It's so ridiculous.

Chris Pine

#65. All religion is in daily need of reformation because all religion, in both blatant and subtle ways, seeks to make itself and its creeds, codes, and cults more important than the revelation and experience it is meant to serve and pass on.

Paul F. Knitter

#66. No fame is actually worth much now-a-days, - because it is not classic fame, strong in reposeful old-world dignity, - it is blatant noisy notoriety merely.

Marie Corelli

#67. The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies ... Subjective reason conforms to anything.

Max Horkheimer

#68. I'm not a follower. I never have been. But I'll definitely become someone I'm not for a few hours if it'll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention.

J.A. Redmerski

#69. The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

Ellen Glasgow

#70. Convinced I was unwanted, the sadness of my childhood escalated into the rebellion of my youth. My sour disposition, and what I perceived as my mother's blatant disinterest in my life, left me floundering.

Suzanne Handler

#71. Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.

Odin Zeus McGaffer

#72. Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band ... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Stan Kenton

#73. Five GOP representative candidates this session have shocked me to my soul at how blatant they have trivialized rape. My prayers were answered in their defeat!

Diane Chamberlain

#74. The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.

Peter Singer

#75. There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#76. For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.

Chris Cannon

#77. People who continue in blatant sin whilst exercising spiritual gifts create this ever widening gulf in their personality which results in spiritual failure, emotional collapse, sometimes mental breakdown, physical illness, relational difficulties and quite often a complete moral lapse.

Graham Cooke

#78. I wanted to highlight her bruises, mark her skin, so everyone knew she belonged to me. I wanted to brand her, to scar her, to wear her blood as a blatant warning to any man who ever looked in her direction.

Pepper Winters

#79. As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Louise Slaughter

#80. But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

Laura Prepon

#81. The parent can change his mind in the context of respectful appeal, but not in the presence of blatant rebellion.

Tedd Tripp

#82. I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'

James Fallows

#83. I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

Dave Matthews

#84. Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

John F. Kennedy

#85. Believing that the soldiers of the apartheid government really did use rubber bullets and carried batons only for decoration is seriously misguided, though understandable considering that newspapers were strictly censored, while history books abounded with Blatant Boer Bias.

Sumayya Lee

#86. Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

Cordelia Fine

#87. I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds.

Steven Magee

#88. Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

Diablo Cody

#89. The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.

Steven Magee

#90. No, you're not, Marissa says. You were just the victim of the blatant misogynistic and ridiculous hierarchy that is high school in contemporary society. You have to take the power back.

Lauren Barnholdt

#91. Life is supposedly filled with paths that enable unlimited choices, but that is a blatant lie. No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices made for them have already set them on a passage that limits the choices they have yet to make.

J.D. Stroube

#92. The word "actually," like its cousin "frankly," should, by itself, be a tip-off to most people that what is to follow is a blatant lie - but it isn't.

Alan Bradley

#93. Seems where you're concerned nothing is easy, so no, I'm not making this easy when everything about you makes me hard." I sucked in sharply at that blatant sexual reference, and swear I felt my nipples get hard.
"Jack, I -

C.P. Smith

#94. I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Jimmy Carter

#95. Given the blatant deceit regarding the biologically harmful effects of antenna towers, cell phones and WiFi radiation, one can only wonder what is going on with all of the other forms of radiation.

Steven Magee

#96. Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Tony Campolo

#97. As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

Al Sharpton

#98. But on this man the look was different. Hungry and possessive, he ate me with his stare, with the blatant desire that he made no attempt to hide.

Alessandra Torre

#99. Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.

Jeff Lindsay

#100. Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

Michael Badnarik