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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

- Jonathan Swift Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

- Henry Ward Beecher Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

- Joseph Addison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . . whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Communism continued to haunt Europe as a spectre - a name men gave to their own fears and blunders. But the crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the spectre of Communism.

- A. J. P. Taylor Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how the very best I can and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

- Abraham Lincoln Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have not for a moment in more than eighty-five years felt a spark of resentment against him, because I have always believed...that the good Lord...by this means consecrated me to the work that I am still permitted to do.

- Fanny Crosby Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

- Henry Ward Beecher Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

- Friedrich Nietzsche Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes that all history originates in human flesh that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another that all social change is built on the bone and muscle. . .

- Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that all the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

- Jonathan Swift Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression.

- Eugene Ionesco Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

- George S. Patton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

- Mary McLeod Bethune Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Bobby Knight Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

- Queen Victoria Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sometimes in spite of differenceSometimes against all oddsSome things are meant to happenIt's written in the stars.

- Amie Comeaux Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and, in any case, are rarely invoked.

- Ralph Nader Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadened the senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.

- Alexander Cockburn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.

- Mark Twain Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this --since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other in other words, women absorb male aggression.

- Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop it being brought in from outside.

- Evelyn Waugh Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

- Andrea Dworkin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

- Jane Smiley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes