Itself Against Quotes

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The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because… — Pope John Paul II
Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat. — Barack Obama
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must… — Hubert H. Humphrey
When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier… — Noam Chomsky
To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does… — Soren Kierkegaard
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans,… — Eric Hobsbawm
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious… — Franz Oppenheimer
You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko… — Josephine Humphreys
Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way… — Bruno Bauer
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy… — Sigmund Freud
Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind. — Ehud Olmert
Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going… — Anne Frank
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. — Jules Renard
We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isnâ€™t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planetâ€™s random… — Arthur C. Clarke
That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder… — Richard Hough
There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go… — Pierre Trudeau
He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light… — Maximus the Confessor
Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checkedâ€”not least by his own party, which set a continental… — Mark Gevisser
When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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