Quotes About Opposition

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality—countermoves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

This was the calm. I was the storm.

Whenever he met with some politician who had qualms about hiring him to do oppo research—digging up dirt on a rival—Stoddard liked to quote Governor Willie Stark from All the King's Men: "Man is born in sin and conceived in corruption and passeth from the stench of the didie to the stink of the shroud. There is always something.

Schoenberg came to the crisis of modernism from a standpoint diametrically opposed to that of Schenker and Tovey: not with his finger in the dyke but with his whole frame spreadeagled on a board swept along by the surf of history.

When an enemy throws the worst it can at us we must meet it with the best we have.

In such a world, in which virtue is vilified and vice vindicated, it was necessary for Catholics to distance themselves from the zeitgeist: "Today more than ever the Christian must be aware that he belongs to a minority and that he is in opposition to everything that appears good, obvious, logical to the 'spirit of the world,' as the New Testament calls

It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work.

She knew she would have to wait for Frecklewish to pass by on patrol; even then, Mapleshade would need the luck of StarClan to get the she-cat alone.

Pure icy fear lanced through Leafpaw. Tigerstar had been prepared to kill any cat who opposed him in his quest for supreme power. And now another cat was preparing to follow in his pawsteps.

Some people define themselves by railing against all of the things they hate, while explaining why everyone else should hate it too.

And then it was on like Red Dawn.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems in order to achieve the goal.

If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for.

When society involves the anarch in a conflict which in which he does not participate inwardly, it challenges him to launch an opposition. He will try to turn the lever with which society moves him. Society is then at his disposal, say, as a stage for grand spectacles that are devised for him. Everything changes; the fetter becomes fascinating, danger an adventure, a suspenseful task.

Anarchists are justifiably opposed to authoritarian communism, which presupposes a government wanting to direct every aspect of social life, and placing the organization of production and the distribution of wealth under the orders of its nominees, which cannot but create the most hateful tyranny and the crippling of all the living forces in society.

Preachers has got to preach against something. It wouldn't do them no good to preach for everything. They got to be against something every time.

religion is an inconvenience only to those who are traveling against the grain of creation, at cross-purposes with the way that leads to redemption.7

The plows of persecution aren't working, and the oxherds haven't even noticed! They plod back and forth, unaware that their opposition is worthless.

Sonata," he says, "means 'sounding together.' It is an argument in which one theme is presented in opposition to another and they struggle until one wins, in the resolution. It is a beautiful form, it has endured into this century.

A power struggle is always better than absolute power.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

The state must protect the media. In a democracy, the role of media is very important. In the absence of a credible opposition party, you can rely on the media.