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Against Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
- No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us…
- Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not…
- If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good…
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its…
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is…
- Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
- The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by…
- A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will…
- I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
- All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.
- All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
- But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor…
- All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it
- To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its…
More Against Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- 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
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — 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
- In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie… — John Green
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong