To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary…

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not…

— Nathaniel Branden

Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and…

— Alexander the Great

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

— James Nayler

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the…

— Marguerite Duras

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

— Guy Finley

If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true…

— Pope Benedict XVI

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we…

— Francois Fenelon

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…

— Voltaire

There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend…

— H. L. Mencken

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe…

— Che Guevara

“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind…

— Blaise Pascal

God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits…

— Poemen

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro

Christianity, righty understood, is utterly unlike religion that man invents. It is so completely contrary to the way man does things that it must…

— Richard Halverson