#gains

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. ↗

— George Savile

#evidence #give #little #make #men

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ↗

— George Savile

#best #better #drunkard #ever #preached

Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#allied #arms #been #bring #continuous

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#church #community #defend #family #government

I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#absolutely nothing #accept #against #anyone #homosexual

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers. ↗

— Ahmet Necdet Sezner

#brothers #campaign #deeply #hurt #initiated

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#doors #men #setting #setting sun #shut

How well he's read, to reason against reading! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#how #read #reading #reason #well