Quotes About Opposition

Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The Ninth Rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

What the hell war isn't unpopular?

Distrust everyone,' she said, 'and you can never be betrayed. Opposed, but never betrayed.

The entire Detroit music community was opposed to the Vietnam war, racism, and every other right-wing idea we butted heads with, and we were all for human rights. When I heard soul music, I didn't hear racism. I heard music, and I liked it.

Violence and strength are the same thing. In all the history of all the worlds before this one, and in all the history of all the worlds yet to come, the violent always win. Those who are capable of committing violence, or getting others to commit violence for them, or who build systems that create mass violence, more efficient violence—those beings eliminate the opposition and, therefore, create the future.

I trust contrariness. ... I simply rebelled at being commanded.

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him? Because he said things like "I believe in white supremacy."

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was "Don't do it," basically.

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.This includes her [Hillary Clinton] plan to bring in 620,000 new refugees from Syria and that region over a short period of time.

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

I cringe every time republican senators say, "our Democratic friends." Chuck Schumer, if he is your friend, it's a problem. I mean, it shouldn't be, but we know it is.

Donald Trump does what everybody who voted for him wishes would happen every time the left pipes up.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

The next time that we meet we meet as enemies!

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.