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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for… — Ambrose Bierce
It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience. — Martin Luther
In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know… — Malcolm X
Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases. — Abraham Lincoln
The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say… — Abraham Lincoln
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe… — Thomas Jefferson
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and… — Thomas Jefferson
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed… — Seneca the Younger
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… — David Hume
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which… — Martin Luther
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. — Eric Hoffer
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm telling America we need to not discriminate against faith-based programs. We need to welcome them so our society is more wholesome, more welcoming, and… — George W. Bush
Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet. — Seth Rogen
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events? — Epictetus
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through… — James A. Baldwin
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom. — John Lyly
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of… — Karl Marx
I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god. — Marilyn Manson
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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