Against Quotes

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.

When you play against the best, it brings the best out in everybody.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.

After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.

We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.