#against

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing. ↗

— Ashton Kutcher

#choices #comfort #comfort zone #continually #growing

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#christian #christian world #hindu #islamic #islamic world

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#another #banks #call #communal #community

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#against #argue #argument #credible #criticise

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#allows #attacks #best #dangerous #detainees

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#been #brutal #come #committing #community

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#became #biggest #consumed #fighting #government

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#against #belonged #chance #circle #circles

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#against #boring #guy #i #myself

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#came #commercialization #defense #defense mechanism #i