Quotes About Opposition

RSS and BJP are not only tarnishing the government but also insulting people of Kerala.

The Liberals are intellectually exhausted.

Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful.

I intend to be a candidate for those who want to vote against everyone.

I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.

In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.

Her detractors, starting with her neighbor John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, derided her as the "instrument of Satan," the new Eve, and the "enemy of the chosen people." In summing her up, Winthrop called her "this American Jezebel"—the emphasis is his—making an epithet of the name that any Puritan would recognize as belonging to the most evil and shameful woman in the Bible.

The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means "hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition." It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation—the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Si tu joues au policier, ils joueront aux bandits. Si tu joues au bond Dieu, ils joueront aux diables. Si tu joues au geôlier, ils joueront aux prisonniers. Si tu es toi-même, ils seront bien embêtés. (p. 16)

At least the Nazis could have been, in Churchill's great and galvanic rhetoric, fought on the beaches, hills, fields and streets. They offered the 'chance to fight back'. The new German invasion, cloaked in the guise of peaceful co-operation, is more damnable because it does not give the English Resistance a proper physical target.

What would have happened if Caverna had been torn by a civil war, the two opposed leaders housed in a single body?

Makepeace did not know who the 'others' might be, but others were always a threat.

It occurred to her that she and Clent were a good deal like clock hands, one large and one small, often pointing and striving in opposite directions, but always linked and bound to come into line sooner or later.

Jesus] asked [His followers] to count the cost carefully, lest they should turn back when they met with suffering and privation. He told His followers that the world would hate them.

You cannot argue with [Satan], for he is the greatest debater of all time.

Had Satan not set himself in opposition to God . . . there would have been no need for God to send His Son to the cross.

In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, "Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.

Satan is real and is opposed to everything God is doing.

This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about "doing good.

Jesus told His disciples that the "world," meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians.

The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform; they irritated and opposed.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.