Quotes About Opposition

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Wherefore, whoever he be who deems himself happy because of license to revile, he would be far happier if that were not allowed him at all; for he might all the while, laying aside empty boast, be contradicting those to whose views he is opposed by way of free consultation with them, and be listening, as it becomes him, honorably, gravely, candidly, to all that can be adduced by those whom he consults by friendly disputation.

you can do against Milton.

It always demands a far greater degree of courage for an individual to oppose an organized movement than to let himself be carried along with the stream — individual courage, that is, a variety of courage that is dying out in these times of progressive organization and mechanization.

Querer jugar contra uno mismo representa, en definitiva, una paradoja tan grande como querer saltar sobre la propia sombra

Maar zelfs tussen betrouwbare mensen verveelde ik me steeds meer bij de onvruchtbaarheid van de eeuwige discussies en de zelfverkozen verzuiling in radicale, liberale, anarchistische, bolsjewistische en onpolitieke groepen; voor het eerste leerde ik werkelijk het eeuwige type van de professionele revolutionair waarnemen, die zich door zijn oppositionele positie boven zijn onbeduidendheid uitgetild voelt en zich vastklampt aan het dogmatische omdat hij in zichzelf geen houvast heeft.

this was my first proper insight into the eternal type of the professional revolutionary who feels himself lifted out of his insignificance by the mere fact of being in opposition and who clings to his dogma for want of resources within himself.

setting out to play against oneself in chess represents therefore the same sort of paradox as a man jumping over his own shadow.

She detested rows and scenes, but enjoyed quietly pitting her cool will against opposition. It amused her; and when she was defeated, she withdrew in good order and lost interest in the campaign. She had little or no sporting spirit. Bloody battles to the death bored her, nor did she like other people to win.

We are weak little Davids. But we are stronger than the Goliath of atheism, because God is on our side. The truth belongs to us.

What happens when you broadcast the truth is you piss everyone off!

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.