Against Quotes

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

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

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.