The modern struggle – Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games...

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they’re not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the...

The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they’re leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it...

I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against...

T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character...

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

Think of social media as the Internet. I can’t think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

I’ve never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it’s life, I’m happy.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending – with the exception of the money spent on them.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That’s what Norman Mailer did....

It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government’s overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action...

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil,...

I am getting better at facing the bouncers, as I know opposition tries to use those as a weapon against me. Yet, no one is perfect, and he takes time to master a particular thing.

In the Orthodox religion, you don’t draw the human figure. It’s against the rules.

Hamas’ battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime’s support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they’re inherently subjective. And that’s the danger, and I think as long as we’re aware of it and can push back against it, I...

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go...

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is ‘not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one...

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

‘Johnny’ was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

There are a lot of teams that don’t want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We’re always looking for the open space. A lot of times we’ll...

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don’t respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

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.

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

You couldn’t find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned,...

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he...

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, ‘Oh I want to talk to someone.’ But...

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.