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Against Quotes by Rollo May
- Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can…
- The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
- Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
- Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.
- Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become…
- Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips…
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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