Quotes of: Against Keyword

War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor ...

1984

Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict... Like the addict who believes against all evidence that what he can't give up won't lead to suffering a...

Kingfisher's Song: Memories Against Civilization

Doesn't there, in fact, exist something that is dearer to almost every man than his own very best interests, or - not to violate logic - some best good ... which is more important and higher than any other good, and for the sake of which man is prepa...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-sh...

Christopher Hitchens

Very often we have common enemies to those in the world. They KNOW that the world is not as it could be, and they are stymied for a solution. As they see victories in our life against loneliness, against despair, and even better victories in the publ...

Brian Eshleman

Saul: You had orders to kill him and you haven't done it. Now he acts like a prophet, and you follow him! Judas: Did you hear what he said back there? Saul: Yes I heard him. We took an oath against Rome. I don't see a thing against Rome around here, ...

The Last Temptation of Christ

Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

Fatal Bargain

...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.

Cyropaedia 1-4

For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

Joyce Carol Oates

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

Atheism: The Case Against God

... the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that there is a path to that cessation.

The Journey of One Buddhist Nun: Even Against the Wind

Do you know why we’re all happy here, monsieur? Because it’s the last house on the road.

A Rule Against Murder

Let your strength from the past provide proof of your abilities to . . . conquer the difficulties of the present.

For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them

The ordeals of others . . . prepare us, and later become the compass . . . in our time of ordeal.

For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.

Possessing the Secret of Joy

I don't know what the future holds. I only know that I want to be with you. You and me. Everything else is negotiable.

Two Against the Odds

It doesn’t matter if you don’t love me right away,” he said. “Just give me a chance.

Two Against the Odds

I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt ...

Paul Haggis