#gains

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#aid #allowed #coalition #continuing #global

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me. ↗

— Henry Villard

#contact #got #had #him #i

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. ↗

— Voltaire

#conscience #course #death #enjoy #enjoy life

It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats. ↗

— Murray Walker

#best #commentator #greats #honour #huge

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#any #common #condition #dynamics #each

I'm against abortion. ↗

— Charles Evers

#against #i

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural. ↗

— Olivia De Havilland

#crest #famous #famous people #feel #life

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#country #death #fellows #fight #his

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#also #bar #blows #bodies #case

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#against #credit #elected #interests #line