To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Henry Miller

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.
Dick Armey

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
Marquis de Sade

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.
Josef Albers

All government, of course, is against liberty.
H. L. Mencken

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.
Lee Trevino

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.
Neale Donald Walsch

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
Barney Frank

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Germaine Greer

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Jimmy Carter