Against Quotes

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

I have no prejudice against male or female.

I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

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