#against

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#against #believe #defendant #force #him

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously. ↗

— Marie de France

#anger #bear #cannot #dearest #fairest

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

#against #aspects #because #capitalism #community

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. ↗

— Al Franken

#building #campaign #during #i #meant

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#al #chain #dell #global #iraq

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief. ↗

— Jose Marti

#office #owes #them #thief #uses

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. ↗

— Robert Frost

#because #best #cream #homogenized #i

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. ↗

— Robert Frost

#beginners #business #market #modern #money

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ↗

— Robert Frost

#begins #clarification #confusion #cults #delight

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#duty #first #guard #his #historian