#gains

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#acts #against #always #conscience #every

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#clear #come #complicated #fight #life

In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy! ↗

— John Badham

#around #background #black #could #crazy

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#criminals #defence #first #lines #themselves

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#desire #fingers #had #i #instead

Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does. ↗

— Alan Bates

#does #go #i #i do #inner

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#against #another #another way #burned #cancelled

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#capacity #genius #productive #reaction #training

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. ↗

— Mark Twain

#assault #laughter #nothing #stand

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#ambition #cloak #employed #exploitation #injustice