#reverse

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#absolute #admire #condition #existed #god

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#buildings #close #contain #degree #dreams

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#does #effect #logic #often #precede

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#assembling #authority #could #done #happen

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. ↗

— Tony Blair

#go #got #i #i can #only

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#done #law #make #ought #our

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghan #afghan people #afghanistan #allow #back

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#am #decay #except #feel #first

The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment. ↗

— Vince Cable

#being #between #degree #global #imbalances

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#destroy #directly #fact #however #mankind