#against

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#arms #bear #being #certain #convinced

Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#believe #country #cuts #darwin #every

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#crimes #cry #freedom #important #justice

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice. ↗

— Anthony Blunt

#ceaseless #cruelty #drunkenness #vice #war

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic." ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#appropriate #else #ethic #happen #i

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#became #began #came #clear #conceived

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear. ↗

— Menachem Begin

#country #disappear #document #effect #israel

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#against #any #army #little #navy

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#against #fellows #our #sin #success is

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place. ↗