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Quotes About Opposition

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
~ Charles Evers
For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.
~ Mara Liasson
Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.
~ Randy Johnson
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
~ Robert Kennedy
Republicans are now trying to stop Donald Trump. And there was much more ferocious and widespread criticism from Republicans of Trump this time around.
~ Steve Inskeep
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.
~ Jay Griffiths
Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.
~ Charlie Sheen
We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.
~ James MacArthur
You're always going to face a little bit of criticism from time to time.
~ Mike Fisher
I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea.
~ Marguerite Duras
Sospechas en mí una sabiduría opuesta a la que te enseñan tus maestros, ves en mi abandono a los sentidos un método de vida contrario a la severidad de la tuya, y sin embargo paralelo. No importa; no hace falta que me comprendas. Hay más de una sabiduría, y todas son necesarias al mundo; no está mal que se vayan alternando.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain.
~ Marilyn Manson
And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.
~ Marilynne Robinson
These things have to happen once every ten years or so. It gets rid of the bad blood. And then if we let them push us around on the little things they wanta take over everything. You gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they were just asking for big trouble when they let him get away with that." Michael
~ Mario Puzo
The Communists and Socialists, those misguided liberals, must be fought against, and that takes money.
~ Mario Puzo
Como disciplina intelectual, dijo, «es aburrido leer a los aliados, a quienes coinciden con nuestros puntos de vista. Más interesante es leer al enemigo, al que pone a prueba la solidez de nuestras defensas.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Neue Züricher Zeitung 07.07.2016: Menschen aus völlig unterschiedlichen politischen Lagern mit völlig unterschiedlicher Motivation stemmen sich gegen das Unüberschaubare, das Unberechenbare, gegen Globalisierung und Kapitalismus – und zwar buchstäblich mit den Ideen der Steinzeit.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
En verdad, fue un individualista recalcitrante, constitutivamente alérgico a ceder un ápice de su independencia y a disolverla en lo gregario, lo que, de hecho, lo convertía en un enemigo declarado de toda doctrina y formación política colectivista, como el fascismo, el nazismo o el comunismo, de los que fue adversario sistemático y pugnaz toda su vida.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Como disciplina intelectual, dijo, «es aburrido leer a los aliados, a quienes coinciden con nuestros puntos de vista. Más interesante es leer al enemigo, al que pone a prueba la solidez de nuestras defensas. Lo que, en verdad, me ha interesado siempre, es averiguar qué tienen de flaco, de débil o de erróneo las ideas en las que creo. ¿Para qué? Para poder enmendarlas o abandonarlas».
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE.
~ Marisha Pessl
Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?
~ Marjane Satrapi
Opposition to the war was becoming fashionable. Popular figures—intellectuals, athletes, musicians—stepped up to announce their opposition
~ Mark Bowden