Turn Against Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
— Emily Bronte
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The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
— Albert Camus
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One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.
— Katie Holmes
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We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will…
— Gershom Scholem
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Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the…
— Stephen Sondheim
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If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
— Christopher McCandless
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It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment…
— Dean Koontz
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If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
— Matthew Simpson
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The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against…
— George Steiner
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It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn…
— Wendell Berry
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How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.
— F.E. Higgins
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You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything…
— Jon Krakauer
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We have the power to turn against our creators.
— Richard Dawkins
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But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an…
— Sophie Marceau
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Most people can be brought to turn against you , for a little of nothing...
— Frenchqueen
Who Wrote These Turn Against Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Turn Against Quotes as follows: