Against Quotes

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.

I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.