Themselves Against Quotes
51 quotes by 46 authors
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
— Jean Baudrillard
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A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
— Karl Abraham
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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
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
— Bernard Berenson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
— Thomas Hobbes
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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
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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
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