Against Quotes

Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases.

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can’t waste your time by trying to convince them that you’re a good person.

If we want to defend the country, we have to defend against who’s coming in.

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.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.

I’m fighting against becoming soft. That’s the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.

Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.