Against - Quotes
Life doesn`t owe us a thing. It just is. Like a river, it goes where it goes. You can try to fight against the current.
Cause this fight was rigged from the beginning. All day, every day, we fight against the current. Sometimes we lose.
One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
The only necessary argument against believing in God is simply that there is no evidence that any gods exist. An atheist doesn`t need to justify her lack of belief any further.
As human beings, we live by emotions and thoughts. We exchange them when we are in the same place at the same time, talking to each other, looking into each other`s eyes, brushing against each other`s skin. We are nourished by this network of encounters and exchanges.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.
The strongest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.
If Christmas were a government program, the Citizens Against Government Waste would classify the entire $66 billion in annual expenditure as "waste".
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism - and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
All observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service.
The day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.