Against Quotes

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

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.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

I'm not against gay people.

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.