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I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
Brigitte Bardot

Marriage, Society, Give

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

Battle, Philosophy, Means

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
Donald Rumsfeld

Decisions, Test, Guidance

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
Bryant H. McGill

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Peace, May, Last

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.
Christopher Hitchens

Saying, Used, Both

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
Samuel Gompers

Everything, Poor, Devil

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave Flaubert

Nature, Stupidity, Nothing

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Molly Ivins

Powerful, Weapon, Satire

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.
Marco Rubio

Change, Hope, Future

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper

Heart, Sweet, Popular

I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.
Jerry Saltz

Matter, Style, Video

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
Jerry Saltz

Art, Put, Progress

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
Jerry Saltz

Die, After, Painting

Consumers now have a voice. And the fact that consumers can be creators, producers and distributors means they can push back against brands to punish them for their socially irresponsible behavior or reward them for their responsible behavior.
Simon Mainwaring

Fact, Means, Voice

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Robert Collier

Nothing, Goal, Trouble

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
Laurence J. Peter

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia

Nature, Art, Moment

Put me up against Sarah Silverman and I could take her.
Joan Rivers

Put, Her, Sarah

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas

Light, Dying, Rage

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
Mitch Albom

Happen, Getting, Older

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

Long, Talent, Run

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
Ty Cobb

Life, Fight, Left

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
Gerald R. Ford

Him, Victory, Themselves

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
Clara Zetkin

Society, Woman, Her

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.
Drew Barrymore

Work, God, Made

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Elayne Boosler

Good, Jesus, Mothers

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus

Wise, Gods, Mark

Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human.
Jodi Picoult

Human, Thoughtful, Wolf

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Society, Yourself, Stuff

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