Quotes with against

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  • Joseph Brodsky The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The Tunisian people will not bow. We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Emily Brontë The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Bruce Jackson The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That's why there's no national outrage when a white person is killed by a black person: it's not evidence of some underlying black violence problem directed against white people.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Betty Williams The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Samuel Smiles The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Casey Stoner There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.
    Casey Stoner
    Australian professional motorcycle racer (1985 - )
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  • Paramahansa Yogananda There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
    Paramahansa Yogananda
    Indian Hindu monk, yogi and teacher (1893 - 1952)
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  • Mark Twain There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bernard Goldberg There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • George Santayana There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Louise Erdrich There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
    (2012)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bob Moses There is a weariness... from constant attention to the things you are doing, the struggle of good against evil.
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  • James Shirley There is no armor against fate.
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  • James Burnham There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power.
    The Machiavellians p. 280
    James Burnham
    American philosopher and political theorist (1905 - 1987)
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