Against Quotes

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.

As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

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.