Against Quotes

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee.

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

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

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

We must continue to work hard on the federal level, to make sure that our local law enforcement and communities have the tools and resources they need to fight this war against methamphetamine, and keep our kids safe.

We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.