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Quotes About Opposition

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The opposite of every truth is just as true.
~ Hermann Hesse
One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.
~ Isaiah Berlin
Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.
~ John of Kronstadt
Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.
~ John Stuart Mill
In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon.
~ Kevin Drum
If the truth is with you, let anything else be against you! You will win! If the truth is not with you but everything else is on your side, it doesn't matter, you will lose!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.
~ Royden G. Derrick
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Opposition stood in my way, but I persevered against all odds and in the process gained my freedom as well as became a man whose future is like the universe/cosmos...INFINITE
~ Pierre Richard Lauture
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.
~ Terry Pratchett
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
~ Virginia Woolf
Dare to oppose yourself.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
The truth is considered hatred by those who hate the truth.
~ Auliq Ice
he would be met not only with the united strength of the Arab countries but also with strong opposition from the Soviet Union and all peace-loving peoples.
~ Michael B. Oren
Opparizio is a perfect target: rich, arrogant and Republican.
~ Michael Connelly
Damn Russians," Siegel muttered. "I hope I live long enough to see that guy impeached.
~ Michael Connelly
Ahora bien, es un hecho conocido que, a veces, los libros se tienen entre sí un odio mortal. Aún tratándose de libros enteramente normales, cualquiera que tenga un poco de tacto no colocará Justine junto a Heidi ni Las leyes tributarias junto a La historia interminable, aunque, naturalmente, los libros normales no pueden oponerse a eso...
~ Michael Ende
All these wild things go on in the world,' says Pearlstein. 'What happens in the studio, I can control. I can do something constructive in the world. That's a lesson I learned in the army: in war, everything is destruction, so anything else we may do can be a gesture of opposition.
~ Michael Kimmelman
Shining a light creates shadows
~ Michael Lewis
Goliath, dissatisfied with his size advantage, has bought David's sling.
~ Michael Lewis
Becoming a genuine individual requires learning the oppositions within oneself. Those who fail or refuse to face the oppositions within have no choice but to find enemies to project upon. Enemy simply means a not-friend; unless a person deals with the not-friend within they require enemies around them.
~ Michael Meade
Life roars at us when it wants or needs us to change. Ultimately, change means trans formation, a shifting from one form to another that involves the magic of creation. The trouble with entrenched oppositions is that each side becomes increasingly one-sided and single minded and unable to grow or meaningfully change. In the blindness of fear and the willfulness of abstract beliefs, people forget or reject the unseen yet essential unity that underlies all the oppositions in life.
~ Michael Meade
Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?
~ Michael Monroe