Top 1200 Against Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

Why do we even make guns? I'm not against gun control. I'm against guns, period. I'm against anything at all that is used as an instrument of death. Why would we manufacture such a thing? Why would we have a business that does it? Why don't we figure out a way to disarm ourselves totally?

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people who resist them. But if you create jokes against them, write funny poems or articles against them, then they feel helpless and desperate. They can't do anything.

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

The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.

For whatever reason, I have got a few goals against Arsenal, so I do enjoy playing against them.

Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.

I've become accustomed to playing against four defenders throughout my career, but in Italy, I have to play against five.

The economic sanctions against Russia are madness, directed against a neighboring and friendly market.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.

Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

You cannot force a country to do something that is against its own interests or against the democratic process.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

Radical Islamist terror is a crime against the entire free world, including against Israel.

The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of darkness.

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

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.

When you struggle against this moment, you're actually struggling against the entire universe. Instead, you can make the decision that today you will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. This means that your acceptance of this moment is total and complete. You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

I mean, all kinds of good memories against Favre. Even when we lost, it was fun playing against him.

Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.

That's the English Premier League. You can win against the best teams and then lose against the last.

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.

I started when I was five, and grew up playing against adults and against men most of the time.

Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against cruelty. There is a lot of suffering in the world, but how much suffering can be addressed with literally no time or effort on our part? We can just stop supporting it, by making different choices.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

In my opinion, people that go against the election are going against America.

...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don't need just nudges.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

I think of myself as playing against the board, and not against my opponent.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.

The fight against terrorism is not a confrontation against any religion.

Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation

Right from the beginning I wanted to test myself against the best, against real champions.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.