Quotes About Opposition

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

I feel like, as a person of color, I've always been kind of doing the work against the tide.

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

The NRA - they are a paper tiger.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Let my enemies devour each other

Trump's contempt and bigotry, his rage and dishonesty, and his attacks on judges, journalists, minorities, and opposition voices are doing untold damage to the moral and political foundations of American democracy.

I saw how important it is not to shun those with whom we disagree. As the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, 'We must always seek the truth in our opponent's error and the error in our own truth.' This is just as important in our domestic politics as in our foreign dealings.

I am the cure and the disease.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

Christ is on both sides: he holdeth up, and throweth down, in one and the same act; he denieth the woman to be his, and is on her side to grace her, to believe that he is her's. Christ putteth his child away, and he desireth that his child should not be put away from him; he is for Jacob in his wrestling, and as if he were against him, saith, 'Let me alone.' Christ here doth both hold and draw, oppose and defend at once.

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication, of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

a system is working when an attempt to transform that system is blocked.

Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.

At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.