Quotes About Advocate

#1. The Law of the Twelve Tables, a Roman legislation circa 450 BC, actually required a father to put to death any deformed child (Cito necatus insignis ad deformitatem puer esto). (Modern moral philosophers, like Joseph Fletcher and Princeton University's Peter Singer, advocate the same thing.)

Robert J. Hutchinson

#2. So you're getting back together with her? Just like that? Muriel asks.
"Not 'just like that'..." "How then?" Muriel enjoys playing devil's advocate. "For starters, it will have to be long distance for a while..." She doesn't let up. "For a while? Have you booked the U-Haul already?

Harper Bliss

#3. I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.

Brenda Song

#4. I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

Sophia Myles

#5. I am an advocate of having a gold dollar with Reagan's picture on it, and calling it the Ronnie. The Canadians have the Loonie, and we can have the Ronnie.

Trent Lott

#6. I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

Anthony Bourdain

#7. Louis Agassiz, the Swiss naturalist who became the most outspoken advocate of the idea that much of Earth had once been covered in ice, but alienated many in the process.

Bill Bryson

#8. I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

Mike Huckabee

#9. The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.

Sergei Lavrov

#10. I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Daymond John

#11. Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Saxby Chambliss

#12. The people's silence is a tyrant's greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.

John Kramer

#13. I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.

Stuart Rose

#14. As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from "victim" to that of "advocate" and "survivor.

Don Easton

#15. I am an advocate ... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.

Christopher Dodd

#16. Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

Richard Dawkins

#17. I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

Kevin Plank

#18. The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to governmental penalties.

Hugo Black

#19. I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

Calvin Klein

#20. For me, as far as skin, I'm a big advocate of facials. And I moisturize. And I read my magazines. I listen to good advice from people who really know, and I try to watch what I eat.

Eva Longoria

#21. Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.

Antony Hegarty

#22. I didn't advocate invasion ... I wasn't asked.

Donald Rumsfeld

#23. The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

Seth Godin

#24. I came to the United States because I valued living as a free person, one who is able to advocate in a democratic society. Unfortunately, the U.S. has been turning into a less free society, a police and surveillance state, especially after 9/11.

Sami Al-Arian

#25. I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection.

Thomas De Maiziere

#26. That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.

Igor Luksic

#27. I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

Tupac Shakur

#28. If you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.

James Carlos Blake

#29. Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way.

Grace Gealey

#30. One of the best things that can happen to any cause, to any people, is to have Bill Clinton as its advocate. That is how needy and neglected causes have become global initiatives.

Mitt Romney

#31. I've been so lucky - I worked with Jason Reitman twice, who has always been a really strong advocate for my voice, and has always really respected the scripts that I've brought him and is just the coolest.

Diablo Cody

#32. I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.

Khloe Kardashian

#33. I've always been an advocate of knowledge is power, but at the moment I'm favouring ignorance is bliss

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#34. I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.

Dennis C. Blair

#35. It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

Jesse Helms

#36. Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

David Chalmers

#37. I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.

Andy Biersack

#38. Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.

Gabrielle Giffords

#39. To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.

Ryuho Okawa

#40. I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

Brian Sandoval

#41. When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.

Charles Coughlin

#42. Part of my job is to advocate on my constituents' behalf to federal agencies who aren't always responsive.

Steven Horsford

#43. Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.

Pope Francis

#44. I think if a candidate ran for office in most states in the country, if his opponent, or her opponent was an effective advocate against the TPP and could show, as I think we will be able to show, it's detrimental to working Americans, I think they would have a hard time getting elected.

Jeff Sessions

#45. I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

Benjamin F. Wade

#46. An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Blaise Pascal

#47. The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

John C. Danforth

#48. She was a civil rights advocate. He was a feminist.

Gloria Steinem

#49. To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.

Hideki Tojo

#50. The great majority of Christians of the first few centuries did not advocate - and probably did not imagine - that such moral equality could be implemented in society. Most assumed, no doubt, that they could realize such moral equality only in the coming Kingdom of God.

Elaine Pagels

#51. If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#52. I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.

Patrick Grant

#53. My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

Victor Cruz

#54. I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists ... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.

Lucy R. Lippard

#55. There is no such thing as Russian fascism. You won't find a single Russian who considers Russians to be a superior race and who advocate expulsion of aliens.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#56. I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

Mae Jemison

#57. I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

Justin Trudeau

#58. Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

James Callaghan

#59. All my life, I've found it difficult to advocate for myself, to ask for what I want. I fear burdening people so much.

Jessica Knoll

#60. F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

Peter L. Berger

#61. Rudolph Walsh, you are my fierce advocate, and your wit and wisdom

Curtis Sittenfeld

#62. It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

Jonathan Shapiro

#63. I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper ... or the money to make a political contribution.

Richard J. Codey

#64. Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

Eric Hoffer

#65. I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

Olympia Snowe

#66. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]

Margaret Sanger

#67. Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.

James S.A. Corey

#68. A sense of worth is critical to counteracting the scarcity model of love and life. If we do not believe in our worth, we become disempowered, unable to advocate for our needs. We do not see or embrace the love that is actually around us in our lives.

Franklin Veaux

#69. The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Orhan Pamuk

#70. All situations can be resolved peaceful. We should advocate for kindness instead of violence.

Mary Sage Nguyen

#71. I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Natasha Trethewey

#72. Satisfied customers are apathetic. Loyal customers will be your advocate.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#73. Horticulture ]10w]
I am an advocate of horticulture and higher-education for sluts.

Beryl Dov

#74. While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

Kathe Kollwitz

#75. I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#76. The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

P. J. O'Rourke

#77. Everyone has a right to a strong and independent future: All of us have the right, and personal obligation, to choose whether or not company-driven hardships and sacrifices, overall, are shackling or strengthening our future. And to keep that right, each of us must be our own best advocate.

Bill Jensen

#78. I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

Michael Arad

#79. I'm a big advocate of drones.

Robert M. Gates

#80. We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

David Foreman

#81. That's one of the cool things about going to local bars: seeing what people are doing and jamming with them. I'm a huge advocate of jamming with others; you learn a lot. So I love to go and do that - even if people wipe the stage up with you..

Slash

#82. The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest friend of beleaguered Israel, and the greatest promoter of global individual freedom in our recent memory.

Victor Davis Hanson

#83. Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

Thomas Brooks

#84. Libraries are a kind of communism which the least revolutionary among us may be proud to advocate.

Joseph Chamberlain

#85. I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.

Hugo Weaving

#86. I always think, medically ... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

Lisa Edelstein

#87. I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#88. I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#89. I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed,

Ursula Burns

#90. I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#91. Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.

David Novak

#92. Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation and the IRS, just as genuine freedom entailed the abolition, not the reform, of slavery.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#93. I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

Assata Shakur

#94. The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society.

Charles Koch

#95. If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

Gustav Stresemann

#96. Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

Criss Jami

#97. It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples,

Gene Robinson

#98. My role as an advocate for Epidermolysis Bullosa related issues, my key responsibility, were to inform, educate, and promote understanding of what we go through as individuals and as a community.

Silvia Corradin

#99. The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

David Cameron

#100. Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

Ingrid Weir