#gains

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bothering #declaim #flame #lights #passions

I have a red line against the Americans. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#i #line #red #red line

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#away #blood #bombs #calls #democracy

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost. ↗

— Mort Sahl

#because #carter #jimmy #jimmy carter #lost

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#arises #church #dead #institutions #machinery

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#against #because #conspiring #everybody #experience

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

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#competition #i #illiteracy #poverty #unemployment