Quotes About Opposition

There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.

Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.

We were the guys on the other side. It was hilarious.

A large plurality of the Trump electorate believed the definition of 'conservative' was simply 'Not Hillary.'

The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.

It was a terrible idea by the Democrats to support Hillary Clinton.

Anything but Hillary Clinton. Because I think Hillary Clinton means war.

Whether you are Hillary Clinton or any other lefty out there, you better beware because Trey Gowdy is out there, and he is going to get you.

I do not want to see Hillary Clinton as our next president.

If I were American, I'd vote everything but Hillary Clinton.

A devil - A power that lives against its life

To confess uprightness in one of the opposite party seemed to most men to involve treachery to their own.

To oppose, to refute, to deny is not to know the truth. Whatever good may come in the destroying of the false, the best hammer of the critic will not serve to carve the celestial form of the real; and when the iconoclast becomes the bigot of negation and declares the non-existence of any form worthy of worship because he has destroyed so many unworthy forms, he becomes a fool. That he has never conceived a deity worth worshipping is poor ground for saying such cannot exist.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

It is this fear of a supposedly dangerous mob that makes nearly all intelligent people conservative in their opinions.

It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.