#gains

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#against #been #competition #fight #half

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#belief #credulity #evidence #slight

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#against #complex #councils #disastrous #exists

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#against #chances #education #else #equipment

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#books #course #designed #few #forever

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. ↗

— Brian Eno

#got #historical #i #kind #life

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...' ↗

— Brian Eno

#against #anyone #because #century #child

You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. ↗

— Jacques Verges

#am #i #i am #know #lynching

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#because #folks #glad #other #rail

Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#brought #choose #constitution #declared #did