Counter Quotes
410 Counter quotes by 359 unique authors
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!
— Bruce Lee
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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
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It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
— Corbin Bernsen
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I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store
— Lita Ford
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
— William Gibson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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