It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
The best player I've ever played against is Kobe Bryant. I have seen him do some stuff that is just unbelievable.
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.
I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.
You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.
You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.
I am against the death penalty.
Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way people with intellectual disabilities are discriminated against. People are afraid of them. People sometimes assume that they don't have skills, gifts or abilities to contribute.
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
. . . the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare.
Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.
The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.
There are a lot of areas where we cooperate, fight against ISIL, for example. Here, Germany was able to contribute to a certain extent in certain areas.