Contrary

Famous quotes containing the word contrary:

“I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

“All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)