Shirin Ebadi

We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.

Iranian Lawyer

Chuck Palahniuk

Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.

American Novelist

David Olusoga

What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people back into the British past. Those of us who write about this history have long been familiar with this.

British Historian

Ann Aguirre

I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice.

American Author

Candace Kita

In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

American Actress

J. B. Pritzker

There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, but I don't think the only alternative is to elect people with money.

Argentinian Businessman

Jordan Burroughs

I'm not afraid to tell people what I hope to accomplish and what I believe I'm capable of. I'm ready to take the backlash if I don't accomplish my dreams.

American Athlete

Yoko Ono

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

American Artist

Kanye West

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

American Rapper

Chael Sonnen

I never receive backlash for my comments. I receive praise.

Backlash in this sense often involves collective discontent or protest about a decision or event.

Public Reaction

Consider the term 'backlash' as an unforeseen adverse response to an action meant to be positive or neutral.

Unintended Consequences

The word 'backlash' implies a powerful and often emotional response against something.

Intensity of Response

In mechanical contexts, 'backlash' refers to physical malfunctions, often unexpected or jarring.

Machinery Fault

Backlash occurs in precise machinery, indicating inaccuracies due to clearance or play between parts.

Precision Problems

Understanding backlash in mechanical devices helps avoid damage and maintain proper function.

Avoidance

 guess that the question is is it possible to break free from that mindset and thankfully the answer is yes because what I discovered when I began looking around that there is a global backlash against this culture that tells us that faster is always better and that busier is best right across the world people are doing the unthinkable they're

Praising slowness - Carl...

 And I guess that the question is, is it possible to break free from that mindset? And thankfully, the answer is yes, because what I discovered, when I began looking around, that there is a global backlash against this culture that tells us that faster is always better, and that busier is best. Right across the world, people are doing the

Carl Honore: In praise...

 student backlash erupted on social media. The tide of resistance, in fact, was so intense, that my college president rescinded the invitation. I was deeply disappointed by this because, as I saw it, there would be nothing that any of my peers or I could do to silence someone who agreed with him

Why it's worth listening...

 and all people created equal, and equal rights and so forth, if that's what you hold out there and it isn't there, eventually you get such a cynicism and such a backlash built up into your society that it doesn't hold together. To some degree, that is what we're seeing around the world today,

The US is back in the...

 psychology and psychotherapy, neuroscience and the study of mystical experiences. But psychedelics leaked out of the research settings and began to be used by the counterculture, and by the anti-Vietnam War movement. And there was unwise use. And so there was a backlash.

The future of...

 But joking aside, I think our world is full of unprecedented challenges, and this comes with an emotional backlash, because in the face of high-speed change, many people wish to slow down, and when there's too much unfamiliarity,

The revolutionary power...

 and families and friends are having hard conversations about closely held truths. Everybody is impacted. And then, there's the backlash. We've all heard it.

Tarana Burke: Me Too is...

 it into a different state an irreversible change there was quite a backlash from mainstream climate science to be talking about these high impact events

The Tipping Point PIPE...

 the the deep reason for this disillusionment and backlash against the the liberal order so one option is that this is actually limited to largely

Yuval Noah Harari...

 myopic they don't see the reality after every peace process there's a backlash and there's leftovers of the