Themselves Against Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

• The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. — Jean Baudrillard
• A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. — Karl Abraham
• For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted… — George Downame
• Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. — Bernard Berenson
• I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. The government is continually growing bigger and more powerful and the people need to prepare… — Timothy McVeigh
• It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos… — James Hillman
• Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts. — Janet Malcolm
• When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too… — Derrick Jensen
• We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies… — Jim Rohn
• The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands… — Thomas Sowell
• Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most… — Algernon Sidney
• The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she… — Albert Howard
• Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… — Karen Armstrong
• People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush. — Juliana Hatfield
• Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie.… — George Grosz
• Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God. — Judy Davis
• Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. — Thomas Hobbes
• There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage… — Tim Allen
• If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we… — Will Rogers

Who Wrote These Themselves Against Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 51 Themselves Against Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Themselves Against Quotes by George Grosz
• 2 Themselves Against Quotes by Leonard Cohen
• 2 Themselves Against Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 2 Themselves Against Quotes by Cassandra Clare
• 2 Themselves Against Quotes by Bernard Berenson
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Juliana Hatfield
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Franjo Tudjman
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Judy Davis
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Thomas Hobbes
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Tim Allen
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Will Rogers
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Kenneth Cole
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Walt Whitman
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Jack London
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Arundhati Roy
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by David Sedaris
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Ray Bradbury
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Sue Monk Kidd
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Steven Erikson
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Jean Baudrillard
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Alain de Botton
• 1 Themselves Against Quote by Karl Abraham