Contrary Quotes

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I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the… — Taylor Mali
Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. — Peter Straub
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies… — Angela Davis
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness… — Therese of Lisieux
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary. — Julius Rosenwald
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the… — Judith Lewis Herman
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed… — Thomas Jefferson
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain… — Alexander Hamilton
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is… — Alexander Hamilton
There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such… — Alexander Hamilton
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice. — Thomas Paine
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease… — Sigmund Freud
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. — Margaret Sanger
In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would… — Thucydides
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is… — Leo Tolstoy
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its… — Piet Mondrian
Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable… — Vaclav Havel
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and… — Robert A. Heinlein

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