Top 84 Rise Against Quotes
#1. In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit ... only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.
Jonathan Alter
#2. That is definitely the heart and soul of Rise Against - that passion to inspire change for the better.
Joe Principe
#3. Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.
Attila The Hun
#4. Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil." The old wizard released the general and patted him on the shoulder. "Tea and cake first, don't you think?
Donita K. Paul
#5. No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
Alexander Cockburn
#7. The civilization and justice of bourgeois order comes out in its lurid light whenever the slaves and drudges of that order rise against their masters.
Noam Chomsky
#8. [I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.
Ulrike Meinhof
#9. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Lewis Mumford
#10. The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.
Nostradamus
#11. It is the responsibility of good people to rise against bad rulers.
Abram Gitspof
#12. To flee from God is to rise against God. It is stand-up, straight-out, in-your-face defiance against the One to whom we owe all loyalty and love. It means insisting that our way of doing things is better than God's way.
Tullian Tchividjian
#13. Anger is what makes our struggle visible, and our struggle is what exposes they hypocrisy of a nation that fashions itself a moral leader. To rise against the narrative and expose the lie gives opportunity to those whose identity depends on the lie to question and, hopefully, change.
Mychal Denzel Smith
#14. Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
#15. Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#16. For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God
John Calvin
#17. For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, to spit upon their heads than to obey them.
John Calvin
#18. It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.
Tim McIlrath
#19. Victories are won while on your knees! Keep praying for those who rise up against you. Fear not. The Lord has rectified the problem. Prayer is POWERFUL!!
Anita R. Sneed-Carter
#20. Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh.
Arthur Rimbaud
#21. The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.
Gregor Strasser
#22. 7"The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.
Charles F. Stanley
#23. If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Jesse Jackson
#25. I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#26. The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. Rise above storms.
Sail against tides.
Succeed against the odds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the odds, in the face of danger, and win.
Julius W. Gates
#29. The TRUTH is ... If more men would rise up and speak against domestic violence, there would be less(V.A.W.)Violence Against Women in our world! Why Should they? Because 1 is 2 many! Any violence is too much.
Timothy Pina
#30. If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
Adolf Hitler
#31. We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let them in. There are many undiscovered voices out there - voices that, against all odds, can rise up and enrich this culture and perhaps change the very nature of the marketplace for the better.
Dan Wieden
#32. The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.
Albert Einstein
#33. Now, do you mind telling me why you have all these guns lying around? Are you afraid the paperwork will rise up against you?'
'Oh, no. I'm going to use the guns as paperweights.
Daniel O'Malley
#34. I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large skeletons without fur. With just one sign, I thought I was able to make them rise up outside their refuges ...
Roger Vitrac
#35. I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
Louisa May Alcott
#36. 7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
Anonymous
#37. The cherries on the ends of our cigarettes burned a bright orange against the surrounding shadows, like the stirring of embers, waiting for the phoenix to rise.
Katherine McIntyre
#38. The gunslinger's stomach seemed to rise painfully against his heart, but his face didn't change.
Stephen King
#39. Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.
James Bovard
#40. I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.
Jeanette Winterson
#41. Magically, hopelessness gives rise to profound hope.
Stefan Emunds
#43. Those who rise to greatness, have endured enormous struggles in their lifetime. It is through their challenges that they forge their will to survive and to keep rising to the top no matter what adversity is thrown against them.
Timothy Pina
#44. Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.
Janny Wurts
#45. Are you mine?" I asked as I wiped my tears.
He kissed the corners of my mouth softly, and I felt heat rise up my neck. "Always have been,"
he whispered against my mouth.
Penelope Douglas
#46. If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Anonymous
#47. Rise up with me against the organisation of misery.
Pablo Neruda
#48. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
Eckhart Tolle
#49. The dark edge of the moor and the Cow and Calf rock are crisp against the blue-black sky. I can't see anyone outside, watching us. As I shut the door behind me, I hear a noise. It came from the hall. I feel the hairs rise on the back of my neck.
Sanjida Kay
#50. My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
Polly Toynbee
#51. Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#52. If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone?
T.A. Cline
#53. [It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.
Adolf Hitler
#54. I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
Sarah Bernhardt
#55. Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events.
Maxwell Maltz
#56. I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.
Anais Nin
#57. A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
Akbar
#58. They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them.
David Baldacci
#59. I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.
Pico Iyer
#60. Wake up, Sophie," Caeden said against my ear.
"Go away," I mumbled.
"Rise and shine," he said and shook me slightly.
"I'm going to stab you in the eye," I mumbled into the pillow.
"Ah, you wouldn't do that, you like my pretty blue eyes too much.
Micalea Smeltzer
#61. Speak Up Humanity..Rise and Speak Up Against China's ABUSE & CRIMES Against Tibet! If Humanity Loses Tibet ... It Will Lose it's Heart. Unfortunately ... It Will Be A Lost that Humanity Will Never Recover From!
Timothy Pina
#62. Why is hesed love so important? Because life is moody. Feelings come and go. Pressures rise and fall. Passions ebb and flow. Hesed is a stake in the heart of the changing seasons of life. Words of commitment create a bond that stands against life's moodiness.
Paul E. Miller
#63. I have always been their rock. A mother's unconditional love is fervent enough to battle against the gates of hell, rise up from her knees and stand gallant, in spite of her gaping war wounds. If only they knew the battle fought and the flood of tearshed without having to endure such agony.
Terry A. O'Neal
#64. Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#65. I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.
Jane Roberts
#66. In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings ... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?
John Dewey
#67. Mary, Mary don't say no, down the basement we shall go. Slap your ass against the wall, here i come balls and all. Won't your daddy be disgusted, when he sees your cherry busted. Won't your mama be surprised, when she sees your belly rise! Sound Off....(ect.)
U.S. Military
#68. The vast size of the available workforce in the emerging markets (1.3 billion people in China alone) means that labor costs will not rise above the $2 per hour threshold for decades. And, that is what we are competing against!
Frank Coyle
#69. How we survive, is what makes us who we are.
Tim McIlrath
#70. The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
Madame De Stael
#71. Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.
Ilana Mercer
#72. Marijuana gives rise to insanity
not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.
Eric Schlosser
#73. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
Charlotte Bronte
#74. My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they're dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.
Rick Riordan
#75. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.
Mary Ruwart
#76. Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
John Conyers
#77. The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
#78. Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against the distortion of a great yearning, 'the effort towards community.'
Marilyn Ferguson
#79. The hostility that America continues to express against the Muslim people has given rise to feelings of animosity on the part of Muslims against America and against the West in general.
Osama Bin Laden
#80. It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
William Gurnall
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A.E. Via
#82. For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.
Juan Cole
#83. The human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.
Harold Russell
#84. Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.
Robert Reich
