Quotes About Opposition

I've come to see that competitors are necessary to those who want to get on in the world. Opposition is indispensable to success.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Thus, with the good we have the bad: we have the opposed movements of a dancer guided by one artistic plan; we recognize in his steps the good as against the bad, and see that in the opposition lies the merit of the design.

In an harangue to the people, he said, with reference to these measures, that he had proscribed all he could think of, and as to those who now escaped his memory, he would proscribe them at some future time.

No matter what one's side in any strife, some allies would make better enemies.

Suatu rahasia yang tak dapat aku pecahkan. Mereka tetap bertempur, bukan hanya melawan Kompeni, juga melawan kehancurannya sendiri.

Maka juga setiap kebawelan wanita harus dilawan dengan kebawelan lain.

P. Chidambaram, the then Home Minister, had strong reservations about this project. He was opposed to the idea of the UIDAI

The bad idea won't go to jail, and it keep fighting back.

You'll never find a better squabble partner than challenge.

Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition, the imperial tradition and the federalist tradition, the authoritarian tradition and the libertarian tradition.

Society is thus bound to remain divided into two hostile camps, and in such conditions freedom is a vain word.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

Wojna pomiÄ™dzy pÅ'ciami to jedyny konflikt, w którym obie strony sypiajÄ… z wrogiem.

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

Though this enemy opposes us—though he hates us and does all he can to thwart God's plans for our redemption and freedom—his strategies are doomed to failure when faced with the power of God. God intends for us to use that power to oppose our enemy. He intends for us to use the authority that Jesus provides to believers (see Luke 10:19–20).

But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Therefore, the way for the Christian to avoid spiritual collapse is to consider Christ and the opposition He faced from the likes of sinners like Caiaphas, Herod, and Pilate. Consider how He faced them with confidence, meekness, and strength.

The revolution revolutionizes the counter revolution

At the heart of most antagonisms are irreconcilable similarities.

the testing of truth has not been carried out once and for all by a group of learned men in some past age; truth has to be discovered anew through the blows and opposition it encounters from the people of every age.

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative, but in this story the two poles had become dissociated and ascribed separate, warring identities.

The intangible became solid, the visionary was embodied, the private became public: when peace becomes war, when love turns to hatred, something is born into the world, a force of pure mortality.

The opposition's role is meaningful when voters elect an opposition with an elected mandate to speak for Singaporeans.