#gains

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#al-qaeda #any #between #collaboration #communicate

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance. ↗

— David Duke

#affirmative #affirmative action #against #college #discrimination

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#against #been #competition #fight #half

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#belief #credulity #evidence #slight

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#books #course #designed #few #forever

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. ↗

— Brian Eno

#got #historical #i #kind #life

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#am #because #i #i am #religion

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#against #aggressor #cannot #denounced #entire

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#am #brutal #crimes #death #deciding

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. ↗

— Demosthenes

#against #democracies #despots #especially #generally