#against

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. ↗

— Novalis

#against #become #disputed #first #must

I shouldn't have to play live just because I've made a record. I get lots of letters 'cos I'm not into the street credibility thing. I don't like that whole thing at all, I've always thought of it as a very glamorous business, the whole thing about putting on a show. All the anti-hero punk thing, it went against everything I've ever wanted to do. ↗

— Gary Numan

#against #always #because #business #cos

I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#against #constitutional #critical #criticism #decisions

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#agree #constitution #enough #explain #majority

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#am #back #does #every #every night

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#alone #crush #even #forces #ground

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you. ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#actions #against #else #forgiveness #happened

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#country #dictatorship #fight #ii #injustice

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

#against #bible #church #does #freedom

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980. ↗

— William Odom

#arab #because #bin #destroy #however