A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Lewis Mumford

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.
Katherine Heigl

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Norman Mailer

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Will Durant

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will Durant

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Robert Louis Stevenson

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

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

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg

I have sinned against you, my Lord.
Jimmy Swaggart

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.
Tim Vine

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
Miguel de Unamuno

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
Dorothy Day

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe