Quotes with against

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  • Barney Frank It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Cecil B. DeMille It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
    Cecil B. DeMille
    American filmmaker (1881 - 1959)
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  • John Jay Chapman It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Epicurus It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Emile Durkheim It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Klemens Von Metternich It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
    Klemens Von Metternich
    Austrian diplomat and statesman (1773 - 1859)
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  • George Brandes It is useless to send armies against ideas.
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  • Buddha It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Abdul Kalam It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bob Newhart It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Brooke Shields It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bill Gurley It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • C. J. Cherryh Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
    Cyteen (1988)
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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