Men often act knowingly against their interest.
David Hume

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
David Hume

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Albert Schweitzer

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.
Henry L. Stimson

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
Kanye West

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Carter G. Woodson

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke

Not even Ares battles against necessity.
Sophocles

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.
Paul Gascoigne

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.
Christopher Columbus

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done.
Kim Kardashian

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal