Quotes About Opposition

There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville. But that's good motivation.

Sometimes the cause of civilization is best served by a hard stare into the soul of its opposite.

The time is now proper for us to reform backward; more by dissenting than by agreeing; by differing more than by consent.

They were arguing about something very complex and important, and neither of them could refute the other. They did not agree with each other in anything, and that made their argument especially interesting and endless.

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. It follows, then, that the true opponent of totalitarian kitsch is the person who asks questions. A question is like a knife that slices through the stage backdrop and gives us a look at what lies hidden behind it.

Yürek konuÅŸtuÄŸunda, ak?l kar?? koymay? yak???ks?z bulur.

La lotta dell'uomo contro il potere è la lotta della memoria contro l'oblio.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country.

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

It's worse now because before I had 16 Republican, conservative people and the media had their favorite but they didn't particularly love anybody. Now it's myself really against the media.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

And so you, like the others, would play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my design! You know now, and they know in part already, and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my path. They should have kept their energies for use closer to home. Whilst they played wits against me, against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born, I was countermining them.

O sabichão do grupo, não acredita em nada, zomba de todo mundo. Quando não tem argumentos, implica com os outros e toma o silêncio de seus interlocutores como concordância.

The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness

They uncritically deploy verses like Romans 13:1–2 to squash dissent ("Submit to the governing authorities, for all authority is instituted by God and anyone who opposes authority is standing against what God has established").

and writhe in tension, pulling you in two directions, leaving you in di-stress.

So if God is forgotten, we want to join God in being forgotten. So if God is rejected and opposed and misunderstood and misrepresented, we want to suffer each indignity and sorrow with God.

But the gravitational attraction between two smaller things, like two electrons, is a million billion billion billion billion times weaker than their electromagnetic repulsion.

I will take their ridiculous peace and shove it down their cold metal throats.

In a Trial by Forfeiture, the normal rules of evidence do not apply. There are no disclosure requirements that evidence be revealed to the opposition or to the magistrates prior to the court proceedings. This places the person with secret knowledge in a uniquely powerful position—commensurate with the extreme risk he takes.

It's so much easier if you just tell yourself you're strategically heading in the opposite direction of those that wish to do you harm so that you may mock them at a later time.

We are opposed to Negro equality. To prevent this we are willing to spare the last man, down to the point where women and children begin to suffer for food and clothing; when these begin to suffer and die, rather than see them equalized with an inferior race we will die with them.