Quotes About Opposition

The moment a person speaks the ultimate truth, the millions of people plunge into the act of proving that guy to be wrong only.

The more a person tries truly to correct the world, the more number of people get often into the act of proving him wrong only.

The woman's head and the man's wisdom are often at loggerheads.

There is nothing strange that a person who brings actually a good change in the society only goes out of its benefit range and the people who opposed to it then often derives later on the maximum profit out of it.

Roane is an enemy, but a very fuckable one.

Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies

It is the strategy which is appropriate to our cause and to our purpose--the strategy of truth--the strategy which opposes to the frauds and the deceits by which our enemies have confused and conquered other peoples, the simple and clarifying truths by which a nation such as our must guide itself.

A man can learn wisdom even from a foe

Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.

Nor does the argument about the contrary seem to be well urged. It does not follow, they say, because pain is an evil, that pleasure is a good; for the opposite to evil may be not a good, but some other evil, and both evil and good may stand opposed to something which is neither one nor the other.

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

Una sociedad civilizada no puede admitirlos porque se oponen abiertamente a las leyes de la selección y de la lucha por la existencia, que se cumplen en el organismo social como en los inferiores.

It's true — we have no proof, or rather no concrete proof, against you. But we do have the conviction that you are a potential enemy of the Revolution. For us, that is enough.

The reaction against utilitarianism was a second romanticism, in which the fight against social injustice and the opposition to the actual theories of the "dismal science" played a much smaller part than the urge to escape from the present, whose problems the anti-utilitarians had no ability and no desire to solve, into the irrarionalism of Burke, Coleridge, and German romanticism.

Zijn lievelingsvijandin, de vrouw met wie hij zijn oorlog had willen uitvechten, zijn laatste, maar ze vocht niet terug.

Most of us who were cooperatively bringing out the Masses were agreed upon that. Some channel of protest must be safeguarded for those who had not been stampeded into dumb obeisance to the world's war-makers.

Edmund Burke wrote, "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Research shows that insults actually intensify people's opposition to one's point of view.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Every play, I'm trying to get as many shots on the opposing team as I can, so when you get to the fourth quarter, they obviously don't want to be on the field anymore.

There's lots of prejudice, but if you examine yourself, you can make It. Of course, this doesn't make me too popular with some quarters in the women s movement.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.