Against Quotes

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted.

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

You can practice against each other, but there's something about a game situation.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

They were unable to stand up and say: "Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism."

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

I think everyone's against abortion.

I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it.

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

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.

Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.