Against Quotes

• "In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there: I might possibly answer, that for any thing I know to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch, as well as for the stone? why is it not as admissable in the second case as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, viz., that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose . . . This mechanism being observed . . . the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place of other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use."
  By: William Paley
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• "I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism"
  By: P D James
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• "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies"
  By: Elizabeth Bowen
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• "Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated"
  By: Isaiah Berlin
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• "How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law"
  By: Sir Edward Coke
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• "He's a fallen hero, a very gentle man under that exterior. He's lived in an environment always ravaged by war and had to be realistic. He wants to use the ring against the enemy instead of destroying it. He doesn't understand the complexities this piece of metal can have on human beings."
  By: Sean Bean
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• "Art is a revolt against fate."
  By: Andre Malraux
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• "Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers"
  By: Lewis Mumford
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• "He (the writer) warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies"
  By: John Arbuthnot
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• "It is the logic of our times, No subject for immortal verse- That we who lived by honest dreams Defend the bad against the worse."
  By: C Day-Lewis
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• "Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me"
  By: Giuseppe Garibaldi
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• "Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive."
  By: James Montgomery
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• "These fragments I have shored against my ruins"
  By: T S Elliot
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• "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table"
  By: T S Elliot
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• "'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.'"
  By: Drew Barrymore
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