Quotes About Opposition

Dictatorships always immediately ban short selling, since it is axiomatic with them that no professional pessimists are going to be tolerated.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy

Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source of ethics. He is absolute morality... We claim to be doing good. But the Lord Ruler - as God - defines what is good. So by opposing him we're actually evil. But since he's doing the wrong thing, does evil actually count as good in this case?

You ask why I smile, Goodman Mennis? Well, the Lord Ruler thinks he has claimed laughter and joy for himself. I'm disinclined to let him do so. This is one battle that doesn't take very much effort to fight.

Kelsier glanced down at his hands and forearms. They still burned sometimes, though he was certain the pain was only in his mind. He looked up at Mennis and smiled. "You ask why I smile, Goodman Mennis? Well, the Lord Ruler thinks he has claimed laughter and joy for himself. I'm disinclined to let him do so. This is one battle that doesn't take very much effort to fight.

Why is it," Marasi said angrily, "that small-minded men must destroy that which they know is better, and greater, than they?

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come...

There's always an opposition, you see. A Push for every Pull, an old adversary of mine always says. Sometimes the moments in our life pile up and become an unstoppable force that makes us change. But at other times they become a mountain impossible to surmount.

Ten people, with Shardblades alight, standing before a wall of black and white and red.

Pulling and Pushing against metals usually felt less like flying than it did like falling—only in the wrong direction.

Where there are villains, there will be heroes

Everyone who is your enemy must also be an evil person?

He was a symbol. A living banner to destroy.

In Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Darth Vader says to Obi-Wan Kenobi, "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.

I didn't spend a lifetime studying theology, but I know that the Church was always against Ireland and for the British Empire.

If we continue to focus solely on the sinner/saint duality in our person and conduct, while ignoring the raging opposition between the Pharisee and the child, spiritual growth will come to an abrupt standstill.

Se continuarmos a nos concentrar exclusivamente na dualidade pecador/santo no jeito como vivemos e agimos, ignorando a oposição feroz entre o fariseu e a criança, o crescimento espiritual chegará, de repente, a um ponto de estagnação.

The teachings of Zen have been deployed in opposition to both religious fundamentalism and anti religious secularism. They have also been used to critique consumerism, technological destruction of and alienation from nature, and other perceived ills of the dominant and domineering worldviews and lifestyles of the modern West. All of this is now part of the ongoing development of Zen as a living and increasingly cross-cultural tradition.