Against Quotes

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Why can't she move in with you? Is she against that? She's not a Mormon or anything, is she?

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

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

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.