Quotes About Opposition

In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science'. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.

Fishing is the opposite of war.

While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.

Ä°nsan?n az?nl?kta olmas? tek kiÅŸilik bir az?nl?k olmas? bile deli olduÄŸu anlam?na gelmiyordu bir doÄŸru vard? bir de doÄŸru olmayan doÄŸruya sar?ld???n zaman tüm dünyay? kar??na bile alsan deli olmuyordun.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.

Su abrazo había sido una batalla, el clímax una victoria. Era un golpe contra el Partido. Era un acto político.

I hate purity, I hate goodness, I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.

a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.

Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon—and yet they will always survive.

Como era fácil! Bastava render-se, que tudo o mais vinha em seguida. Era como nadar contra uma correnteza que empurrasse a pessoa para trás, por mais força que a pessoa fizesse, e depois de repente decidir virar para o outro lado e deixar-se levar pela correnteza em vez de opor-se a ela. Nada se alterara, exceto sua própria atitude; fosse como fosse, o que estava predestinado sempre acontecia.

All men are enemies.

All the best matadors were Fascists.

Si la libertad significa algo, es el derecho a decirles a los demás lo que no quieren oír.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word—Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.

You're only a rebel from the waist downwards," he told her.

It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency. —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

Toujours la générosité s'oppose au mouvement de l'avarice, comme au calcul raisonné la passion.

Estaban no cerne da situación máis vulgar, máis estúpida do mundo. Pero por máis que sabían que era vulgar e estúpida, así e todo estaban alí: a oposición entre o traballo e a liberdade, oíran dicir, xa ía boa que deixara de constituír un concepto rigoroso; e sen embargo era o que máis os condicionaba.

on the story. The other

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.