Quotes About Opposition

Therefore, there will be much opposition to him from his people who want to lead and not be followers of others. Especially the middle class, the black Christian preachers, and the college and university students who feel so proud of their worldly education and positions.

The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sow.

Two can play at Salisbury's game.

It seems poetic that the strength of our enemies be made to serve us.

Rilriltok had apparently not expected to report to work and discover an enormous natural enemy next to its desk.

They were on opposite sides of this issue, and both of them had catastrophically let me down.

Don't you see we're all full of horrible power, working against each other however much we may love?

Nothing of this world is not in God. Substance is not the despised materiality of bodies that must be separated from God; it is God, God under the attribute of extension or materiality. Descartes is thus mistaken, according to Spinoza, in defining matter as extension, for matter must necessarily have a conceptual equivalent, an idea, not in opposition to extension but as one of the attributes of substance.

Man is, without doubt, the defacer, the destroyer. But spending at least the last three years in trying to understand the enemy has almost seduced me to his side.

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

the opponents of the Bolshevik Revolution were poised to command 56 percent of the votes in the Constituent Assembly. The Bolsheviks had exactly 175 of 715 seats—hardly a position from which to dominate the proceedings.27

Lenin did not care either way. Their time would come later; for now, his message had been broadcast loud and clear. No one, absolutely no one, would be allowed to stand in the way

It was not the last time a well-meaning American Progressive would express the view that if only we made our good intentions plain, the opposition of our foes would melt away.

First, those who seemed to be trying to stop further revolution might actually be allies in preserving it. Second, the real threat would come from someone who until now had been entirely removed from events, and who had the smallest political following of anyone in Russia, namely Lenin.

There was Wilson's overweening spiritual arrogance, which Nicolson saw as part of the president's Presbyterian inheritance. There was Wilson's thin-skinned response to the slightest criticism or opposition, but above all, there was, as Wilson himself admitted, the American president's "one-track mind.

Like many high-minded people, Wilson, when faced with opposition that he considered evil but which refused to yield to his arguments, felt no compunction about simply crossing his arms and refusing to play the game.

Their actions highlight the curious self-righteousness of the American Progressive mind, and the belief among Progressives that their views once arrived at were beyond criticism; as with Wilson, opposition itself became a sign of disloyalty, even of evil.29

The two came to differ on many, if not most, issues. But the man who would single-handedly defy Hitler in 1940 against all odds bears a striking resemblance to the man who organized the first satyagraha campaign in South Africa.

Hence, as John Owen said: Sin's proper formal object is God It hath, as it were, that command from Satan which the Assyrians had from their king: "fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel," that sin sets itself against. There lies the secret, the formal reason of all opposition to good, even because it relates unto God.... The law of sin makes not opposition to any duty, but to God in every duty.

The Law is used un-lawfully, not when presented as the rule of the believer's life, but when it is opposed to Christ!

è un terribile errore misurare le proprie forze contro quelle dei potenti, con cui è più facile perdere che vincere. È molto meglio pazientare senza fare rimostranze fino a quando il tempo o il caso non ci metteranno l'avversario a tiro di daga […] Nel caso contrario, pazienza: perché, in fin dei conti, l'ultima parola spetta a Dio ed è lui che mescola le carte, le sue e quelle di tutti noi.

Vinieron los sarracenos / y nos molieron a palos; / que Dios ayuda a los malos / cuando son más que los buenos.

Sería de justicia recordar que, en tiempos de oscuridad, siempre hubo hombres buenos que lucharon por traer a sus compatriotas las luces y el progreso... Y que no faltaron quienes procuraban impedirlo.

La guerra de Lorenzo Falcó era otra, y en ella los bandos estaban perfectamente claros: de una parte él, y de la otra todos los demás.