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Against Quotes by Mark Twain
- I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are…
- We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
- Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
- The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth…
- All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if…
- As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them…
- I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which…
- Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . .…
- There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
- Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
- When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.
- Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
- There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
- Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For…
- The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed…
- We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss…
- [Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting…
- We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a…
- Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange