Quotes About Opposition

Offering his own scalding stream of accusations, he terrified the opposition into silence. "By certain documents," Octavian promised to demonstrate that Antony constituted a threat to Rome. He fixed a date on which he would present his evidence. The opposing consuls had seen the daggers; they knew better than to await that session, and secretly fled the city. Nearly four hundred senators followed, sailing to Ephesus

her history written by her enemies

I will stand alone. I will oppose tyranny at the threshold, though the fabric of liberty fall and I perish in its ruins.

They have shown school as a complex game, a battle of opposing interests, where the teacher, representing authority and power, attempts to pack the maximum information into the students' heads, while the students, by nature the weaker side, do their best to avoid that information.

The pistachio: it's just like our politics. When the two sides are divided, that's when the nuts come out.

They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles.

For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite.

Do not do what you want to do, but what you judge your enemy least wants you to do

He's your enemy, Donald!' 'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He may dearly want to be my enemy, he may beg on bended knee for open hostility of the most violent kind, but it takes two to tangle. I choose my own enemies.

countercantabrigianism.

The Anointing attracts Antagonism

If you can't be liked being kind, then be hated being cruel.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.

Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

I love making people who already hate me hate me more.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Sometimes it even seemed like a relief to him that there was someone prepared to be rude to him, to contradict him or tell him he was being horrible.

He had always been like that, our son—quite capable of doing the opposite of what was right, simply because he didn't want to be seen to be complying in some way. I don't know where it came from, this urge to subvert. Perhaps it was what made him such a brilliant negotiator. He

For progressives fascist is a conservative who is winning an argument.

she thinks she's going to force me out of the race like this, she has another thing coming to her.

Porque hay mucha oposición por parte de la carne, el mundo y el diablo

You can't have much of a mission without good allies and a good enemy.