Against Quotes

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

You have to fight against being an antique.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.'

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.

When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.