Against Quotes
11155 Against quotes by 5617 unique authors
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We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.
— Chester W. Nimitz
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Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
— George Orwell
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Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
— Havelock Ellis
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We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.
— Jacobo Timerman
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I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.
— Ken Gillespie
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Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.
— Ron Paul
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Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...
— Simone Weil
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By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling…
— Henry Mitchell
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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
— Mark Twain
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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years.…
— Henry Fielding
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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.
— Janet Morris
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Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made.…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod.…
— Coventry Patmore
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I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score against Curtis Joseph.…
— Ron Tugnutt
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...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this…
— Immanuel Kant
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our…
— Martin Luther
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It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...…
— Thomas Aquinas
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How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;…
— Leo Tolstoy
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When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday…
— Pat Riley
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Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.
— Bud Wilkinson
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In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.
— Sam Huff
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You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with…
— Winston Churchill
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