Against Quotes

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.