Against Quotes
11155 Against quotes by 5617 unique authors
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A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility…
— Ammon Hennacy
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will…
— Herman Melville
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What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears.…
— Charlton Heston
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along…
— Stephen Batchelor
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[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and…
— Martin Luther
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I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his…
— J. G. Ballard
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If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The…
— Sun Tzu
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I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. "What is taking place in America," she said, "is…
— Mother Teresa
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We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion,…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve…
— Mother Teresa
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Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent…
— Mother Teresa
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America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion…
— Mother Teresa
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First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules.…
— George W. Bush
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Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the…
— St. Jerome
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You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies,…
— Pope John Paul II
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...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained…
— Karl Marx
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The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of…
— Mao Zedong
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I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents…
— Greta Scacchi
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The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the…
— Carol P. Christ
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There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,…
— James Madison
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I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten…
— Strom Thurmond
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The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
— Thomas Jefferson
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