Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#on the contrary

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #on the contrary




Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.


Jan Morris


#on the contrary #petty #profound #smallness

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.


William H. Seward


#altogether #constitution #contrary #does #excludes

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.


Mikhail Bakunin


#beings #confirmation #contrary #equally #far

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.


Frederic Bastiat


#beforehand #caused #contrary #exist #existed

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.


Silvio Berlusconi


#american president #avoid #capabilities #contrary #convince

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.


Sidney Blumenthal


#bush #complacency #contrary #even #first

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.


David Brainerd


#approach #attended #been #blessed #blessed be

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.


Richard Cobden


#contrary #country #engaged #enter #going

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.


Paul Tournier


#accepting #away #comes #complexes #contrary

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.


Wim Wenders


#change #changes #contrary #contribute #film






back to top