Quotes About Opposition

Enemies are so stimulating.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Harry and Draco have a very weird love/hate relationship.

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

There are no innocuous ideologies. They're forms of pathological over simplification and they're also clubs, I mean the kind of clubs that you hit people with as well as the kind that you belong to... the advantage (to me) of being an ideologue is that I can explain everything, I can feel morally superior, and I know who my enemies are...and you know what you're supposed to do with enemies? They're not your friends, you move against them.

It is because of of Freud, Jung, Nietzsche—and Orwell—that I always wonder, "What, then, do you stand against?" whenever I hear someone say, too loudly, "I stand for this!" The question seems particularly relevant if the same someone is complaining, criticizing, or trying to change someone else's behaviour.

When you are fighting against something than there's something else you are not doing.

And if there is something that is not good, then there is something that is good. If the worst sin is the torment of others, merely for the sake of the suffering produced—then the good is whatever is diametrically opposed to that. The good is whatever stops such things from happening.

If the worst sin is the torment of others, merely for the sake of the suffering produced—then the good is whatever is diametrically opposed to that. The good is whatever stops such things from happening.

It was all those counterproductive forces that the Egyptians were attempting to conceptualize in the figure of Set, the enemy of illumination, enlightenment, vision, and consciousness.

If you lean too far in one direction, something else in you leans equally far in the other.

Since the ideologue can place him or herself on the morally correct side of the equation without the genuine effort necessary to do so validly, it is much easier and more immediately gratifying to reduce the problem to something simple and accompany it with an evildoer, who can then be morally opposed.

The same pattern of creative conflict pervades the Old Testament, which is in large part a series of stories about the spirit in prophetic opposition to the inevitable corruption of dogma harnessed to serve power. It is the personality who mimics that model who might be regarded as truly Western, in the deepest of psychological senses.

Nos costó mucho entender que frustrando un placer particular se podía obtener un provecho, ya que algo así se opone frontalmente a nuestros instintos animales más fundamentales, que exigen una satisfacción inmediata, sobre todo en los inevitables períodos de carestía.

I'm a collaborator and opponent even when I'm not talking. I can't help it. My expressions broadcast my response, even when they're subtle.

Digo que esta noticia me parece interesante, porque es prueba de que en un país en donde no existe lo que pudiera llamarse oposición, hay en cambio partidarios de lo que sea, siempre y cuando se refiera al pasado.

His behaviour was like that of the conscious or unconscious demonomaniacs who do evil for evil's sake. They are no more mad than the rapt monk in his cell, than the man who does good for good's sake. Anybody but a medical theorist can see that the desire for good and the desire for evil simply form the two opposing poles of the soul.

He aquí una nueva base para la tolerancia: cada hombre necesita de su enemigo.

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

Youth is lazy. What galvanizes it is our opposition.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.