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Against Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,…
- At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which…
- The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
- Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear…
- To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.
- Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You…
- The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is…
- In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:…
- Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against…
- I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree,…
- A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too…
More Against Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. — Michelle Bachelet