#gains

Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman. ↗

— Sam Houston

#arms #conduct #friends #gallant #generous

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#against #alive #because #kill #law

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#becomes #blatant #cloak #cowardice #dares

I'm not against gifts that entertain, but I really believe that some of the most valuable gifts that we can give are the things that help us to develop a skill and be entertaining. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#believe #develop #entertain #entertaining #gifts

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. ↗

— George Orwell

#classes #country #foreign #foreign country #going

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#between #bottom #carries #drive #either

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. ↗

— King Hussein I

#am #approach #close #down #future

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. ↗

— King Hussein I

#acts #against #condition #exploit #extremists

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. ↗

— William Godwin

#argument #because #coercion #could #doubt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. ↗

— Graham Greene

#always #bell #calls #dumb #guard