Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
The Universe is never conspiring against anyone.
I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?
While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining activists' access to free online software and services used widely across the Middle East, including browsers, online chat applications, and online storage services.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
If we are not actively fighting against regressive ideologies, we are contributing to making them grow.
I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
The threat from the far right is as corrosive as the twisted Islamist ideologies so many Muslims have spoken out against.
Power tends to corrupt - so we should, in both the public and the private spheres, be on guard against, and erect sturdy guardrails against, the corruptions of power.
The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
We have the power to turn against our creators.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.
