Against Quotes

I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

You’re going against the government of the United States. You don’t beat a federal court, a federal judge, and the FBI – there’s no way.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty.

The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.