#against

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#aggression #civilization #consequences #defend #even

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#be true #come #concerning #consideration #into

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#always #favor #gained #him #his

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least! ↗

— Chuck Norris

#adopt #against #aim #atrocious #because

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights. ↗

— George William Norris

#both #could #defied #first #gone

Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone. ↗

— George William Norris

#american #any #declared #either #embargo

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody. ↗

— Oliver North

#cannot #cell #cell phones #emails #intercept

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. ↗

— Jacques Lipchitz

#against #answer #art #artist #asked

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#anybody #heart #i #ill #will

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#bourgeois #capital #class #domination #grave