I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Against my will in the course of my travels the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before but we have no responsibility toward them.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature the sentiment of the heartless world as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People afraid to oppose those fundamentalists shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion which is the source of fundamentalism.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps you lift heavy weight as heavy as you can handle and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture religion or tradition propagates.

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion I would say I was against it.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

Master of the universe but not of myself I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe they are in that conditions called war and such a war as if of every man against every man.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments however radical in intent or consequence are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.