Proxy Quotes

“Leah once said that she’d rather have people call her fat directly than have to sit there and listen to them talking shit about some other girl’s weight. I actually think I agree with that. Nothing is worse than the secret humiliation of being insulted by proxy.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.”
― CrimethInc., Contradictionary

“A grudge was just another debt owed.”
― Alex London, Proxy

“We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions, the only window to predict the future environmental and climate changes.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Some people don't have the gut to tell you in the face. They use a proxy to let you know that they hate your gut, values, and what you represent...”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“I study people by using electronics like proxy.”
― Deyth Banger

“Dictatorial regimes in Africa and Latin America that aided America or European interests (resource extraction, investment privileges, strategic support in the cold war) and were, in return, propped up by Western protectors have been called “client fascism,” “proxy fascism,” or “colonial fascism.” One thinks here of Chile under General Pinochet (1974–90) or Western protectorates in Africa like Seko-Seso Mobutu’s Congo (1965–97). These client states, however odious, cannot legitimately be called fascist, because they neither rested on popular acclaim nor were free to pursue expansionism. If they permitted the mobilization of public opinion, they risked seeing it turn against their foreign masters and themselves. They are best considered traditional dictatorships or tyrannies supported from outside.”
― Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism

“The Ukraine war is surprising. Russians killing past Russians in Ukraine. It just seems so bizarre! It is basically a territorial civil war that has been turned into an international proxy war.”
― Steven Magee

“Proxy wars have us on the edge of the next nuclear disaster!”
― Steven Magee