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The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man? — George Orwell

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. — Samuel Johnson

each man braces his fear against his love. What you love may change. But if you love still, your fear remains — Gordon Dahlquist

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. — Horatio Nelson

Rebel against the flesh and bone,
The word of the blood, the wily skin,
And the maggot no man can slay. — Dylan Thomas

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner. — Barry Goldwater

Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God. — Watchman Nee

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man. — Mahatma Gandhi

My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I had no idea what I was speaking of, but only knew I must sound confident. Fear might work on a man, but confidence fights against fear. Odda — Bernard Cornwell

So here I am, against my will and yours too, well I know
no one wants the man who brings bad news. — Sophocles

A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it." What — Arthur Conan Doyle

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

No women does anything by accident. Brushing against you, trying to pass by you, bending over to pick something up...all traps man. All traps. — Van Krishna

the white bath mat. The man kicked out and sent Qassou flying through the air, striking against the — Ben Coes

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand. — Robert E. Howard

It is good that a man should have his wife close at hand. It makes the spirit happy and guards against insanity. — Tony D'Souza

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist. — Charles Bukowski

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. — Camille Paglia

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. — Max Frisch

You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty. — Nicole Krauss

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever. — Will Durant

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. — Socrates

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world. — Anna C. Brackett

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest. — Horace

A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still — Dale Carnegie

History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth. — Sebastian Barry

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? — Russell Hoban

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. — Dennis Gabor

I'm a man more dined against than dining. — Maurice Bowra

No man of God does something against the Lord — Chris Oyakhilome

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is — James Branch Cabell

I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good. — Richard M. Nixon

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. — Jean-Paul Sartre

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — Isaac Asimov

The Sin against God's Law Resulted in the Fall of Man — Sunday Adelaja

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. — Woodrow Wilson

A merciful God must surely close his eyes in anguish against the barbaric will of man to main and butcher one another — Linda Goodnight

The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. — R.A. Torrey

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth. — Herman Melville

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself. — Lawrence Durrell

If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him. — Taraji P. Henson

Dad has always said that a man who raises a hand against a female lowers himself beneath her feet. — Erin Watt

The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other. — Erich Hartmann

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature ... — Edward Gibbon

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it. — G.K. Chesterton

I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory. — Todd McFarlane

(He) looked directly into his own eyes, as though his eyes were neutral territory, a no man's land in a private war against narcissism. — J.D. Salinger

Man and woman, in a world without suffering, chose against God. — Philip Yancey

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you're empty. — Nicole Krauss

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master. — Benvenuto Cellini

What could he have done, one man against so many? He could have tried, Brienne thought. — George R R Martin

Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself. — Patti Smith

Every unjust man is unjust against his will. — Plato

Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots - or traitors. — Stephen A. Douglas

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. — Eric Hoffer

I advise you against following my example. Don't take up with a man who will die for you. Find one who will kill for you instead. — Donna Thorland

In this place of light: he dares to live
Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings
Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things. — Theodore Roethke

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man. — Anton Chekhov

Man against man can only take revenge but cannot punish — Santosh Avvannavar

I'm sorry about your dad. He was a good man. He adjusted his position again so she was neatly blocked against the wall. — Liliana Hart

He would measure the world against the rigid grid of his heart and put each man in charge of a domain no more and no less than his just deserts. — Ken Liu

When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man! — Susan Polgar

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. — Emile Durkheim

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. — John Marshall

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. — John Steinbeck

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. — Robert Southey

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him. — Charles Dickens

1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man! — Anonymous

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. — Robert South

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him. — Jonathan Swift

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it. — Ignazio Silone

When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma. — Mark Twain

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself. — Confucius

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God. — G.I. Gurdjieff

...nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation. — Seneca.

Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us. — Mary Pope Osborne

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. — Max Lerner

A proud man will be set against all that is holy, for he is the God of his own world. — Angela Elwell Hunt

Effortlessly, the man sowed the idea of sex with his quips, the smiles, and something as innocent as their legs brushing against one another. — Melissa Blue

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. — Malcolm X

The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse. — Laline Paull

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. — Francis Of Assisi

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. — Thomas Carlyle

No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a-comin'. — Captain Bill McDonald Texas Ranger

It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense — Ovid

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone. — Bobby Knight

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will.
(Against Fortunatus) — Augustine Of Hippo

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? — William Cowper

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man." — Marcus Aurelius

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight. — Jeffrey Fry

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

I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning. — William Shakespeare

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them. — Henry Ward Beecher

A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it. — Zora Neale Hurston