Quotes About Oppositional

Rape jokes are very far from rebellious, subversive, or oppositional. They are fascist salutes to male supremacy. Laughing about the sexual (and thus the physical, emotional, and psychological) torture of females, signals one's servile obedience to the misogynistic status quo.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

I have contrarian tendencies.

There is a real need to construct a different Middle East. The Middle East must change because the world has changed. And instead of oppositional armies that are fighting usually one against another, now we have a net of terrorists that are trying to destroy everything. They are not two; they are hundreds.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

Dat was een van de eigenschappen die Karina zo in het meisje waardeerde: ze was tegendraads, en Karina hield van tegendraads.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

The problem is that most people are average. This includes people who run universities, publishing companies, and the rewards system in the arts. Most people look at something that is not familiar and think it is wrong. Very few people are able to look at an authentic discovery and be grateful. For that context to exist there has to be a true avant-garde, a large, vibrant community of people willing to think, fuck, love, live, and create oppositionally.

Supremacy among mortals is always oppositional to God, but among people who carry the name of Christ, it is blasphemous.

I don't think of myself as a trendy person at all, and if I'm anything, I'm probably contrarian.

I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.

A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's the racism, and those are the hard facts of the story.

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

There is state-run television in Russia, which is more loyal to the state, as it always is with state television in any country. We have private owned networks; some of them are oppositional. We have thousands of regional networks that, in their regions, are more watched than the so-called federal stations.

A lot of the music I was inspired by growing up - college rock, DIY, what they used to call indie rock - has a value system where truth-telling and authenticity are oppositional with mass media, showbiz, and commerce.

Kids who are oppositional or acting out in angry and aggressive ways often can't explain how they're feeling. They are overwhelmed, yet the only emotion they know how to communicate is anger.

Recognition of the political-economic forces that impose patterns of suffering is the foundation for an applied critique of policy and services that persecute oppositional, marginalized populations in the name of morality

This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.

When understood in all its rich complexity, religion does not simply provide secure foundations but destabilizes every type of religiosity by subverting the oppositional logic of eitherjor.

I've just attended another talk by Fr. Richard, what Emerging Christianity is not! He said that EC is not oppositional and is non-dualistic, and also that Jesus, with sayings like "let the wheat and the weeds grow together" and "my Father's love shines on the good and the bad," was the first non-dualistic teacher of the West. "Jesus was far happier for us to live with the shadow rather than to project it" said Rohr.

There was more to the Tea Party than constitutionalism, however. It was a manifestation of America's "folk libertarianism": a widespread oppositional attitude toward authority of all stripes.