Quotes About Opposition

By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.

I had opposed the Jet-Etihad FDI arrangement on the ground of the disproportionate share of airspace given to Etihad, which is against the interest of domestic passenger traffic and also against national interest.

It would be a tragedy for democracy if dissent goes away.

I stood respectfully as Ronald Reagan was sworn in to his second term though I disagreed with him on many issues. I stood as well for the inauguration of George W. Bush's second term though I thought his war in Iraq was a tragic mistake.

There were several men who had blazed the trail for talking about emotions in philosophy; otherwise my work would have had even more opposition than it did.

We have evidence that a number of Bahrainis who oppose our government are being trained in Syria. I have seen the files and we have notified the Syrian authorities, but they deny any involvement.

I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

During the Second Boer War, from 1899 to 1902, Britain was rampantly jingoistic: anyone who opposed the war was cast as a traitor. The 'Guardian' stood against it and ran a campaign for peace while the brilliant 'Guardian' reporter Emily Hobhouse exposed the concentration camps for the Boers run by the British.

Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

It does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them, and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one's acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from coming into being; it does not tyrannize, it hinders. Alexis de Tocqueville

No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from taking place in the state to which he belongs, can possibly escape with his life. The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

And what is that religion that sanctions, even by its silence, all that is embraced in the 'Peculiar Institution'? If there can be any thing more diametrically opposed to the religion of Jesus, than the working of this soul-killing system - which is as truly sanctioned by the religion of America as are her minsters and churches - we wish to be shown where it can be found.

So many writers fight an uphill battle trying to interest their readers in matters that have no inherent conflict.

The secret of creating conflict in scenes you write is to give your characters different scripts.

I was tempted to run in the opposite direction rather than follow her anywhere.

sometimes, the more you want something, the more the opposite tends to happen.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth.

America has turned into an angry nation with two warring factions that ceaselessly demand that we join in their fight,

Always remember that if this were not the Lord's work, the adversary would not pay attention to us.