There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
William Glasser

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
James A. Baldwin

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James A. Baldwin

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul Alinsky

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight

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

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
Harry S. Truman

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
Orson Welles

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
Jack Nicholson

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee