#gains

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that. ↗

— Mike Lee

#again #against #ceiling #debt #debt ceiling

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#against #amateur #back #because #discrimination

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #been #before #behind #catching

People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#against #because #before #bothers #critics

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#always #capital #class #class struggle #effective

Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#comrades #during #festival #imperialist #may

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#especially #i #learned #lot #own

V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening. ↗

— David Lloyd

#against #allegory #could #happen #happening

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries. ↗

— Jon Lord

#boundaries #getting #greater #me #often