Against Quotes

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

I always wanted to play against the best.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.