Counter Quotes

410 Counter quotes by 359 unique authors

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to… — Ralph Raico
We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways… — Thomas Friedman
The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be observed… — St. Jerome
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers… — Joan Didion
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic… — Leo Buscaglia
Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during… — Qurratulain Hyder
Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting! — Bruce Lee
I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky.… — Oded Fehr
It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy. — Corbin Bernsen
I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store — Lita Ford
It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and… — Gary Yourofsky
We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on… — Per Petterson
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you… — Robert Anton Wilson
Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith.… — Reza Aslan
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. — William Gibson
And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives,… — Karl Marx
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder… — Marquis de Sade
To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism,… — Hugo Chavez
Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the… — Junior Seau
One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.… — Rick Santorum
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or… — Chester Brown
Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and… — Robert Moss

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