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Quotes About Opposition

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...
~ Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again.
~ Laurence Overmire
It is in opposing the world's lies that we impose truth in our hearts.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth.
~ Alisa Hope Wagner
Stop opposing the truths.The truth is truth no matter how you take it. It is not going to be changed for your inconvenience.
~ Bikash Bhandari
The key is to enjoy life, because they don't want you to enjoy life.
~ DJ Khaled
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.
~ bell hooks
The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
~ Mitch McConnell
I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.
~ Fetty Wap
A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.
~ Ed Asner
Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.
~ Fiorello H. La Guardia
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!
~ Jane Elliott
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things
~ Clifford Geertz
I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.
~ John McCain
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
~ Mark Helprin
You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
~ James M. Barrie
The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.
~ Stephen Fry
The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
~ Stephen Harper
First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.
~ Stephen Harper
We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
~ Stephen Harper
The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
~ Stephen Harper
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
~ Stephen Hawking
The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.
~ Stephen Jay Gould