“The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest”
Henry David Thoreau
“Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.”
Jan Morris
“Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Contrary to commitments made to the Europeans and others, and contrary to its treaty obligations, Iran is engaged in enrichment activity on its territory and that is of serious concern to all of us and frankly, that is why Iran finds itself in the mess that it is in.”
Adam Ereli
“I say it to thee again, and doubt never the contrary, that if it were the custom to put the little maidens to the school, and they were made to learn the sciences as they do to the men-children, that they should learn as perfectly, and they should be”
Christine de Pisan
“Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Without contraries is no progression.”
William Blake
