Quotes About Opposition

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

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dem Stumpfsinn sind immer alle nachgelaufen der Geist ist immer mit Füßen getreten worden

Proteste herauszufordern ist meistens Taktik, Proteste niederzuschießen ist meist ein Verbrechen, aber Proteste herauszufordern um sie niederzuschießen, ist Perversion.

President Obama's postpartisan pitch fell flat, and the Tea Party movement pulled the GOP further to its ideological pole. Republicans greeted the new president with a unified strategy of opposing, obstructing, discrediting, and nullifying every one of his important initiatives.

You are taking too much upon yourself! she said, vehemently. Everybody is upon me—everybody. It is unmanly to attack a woman so! I have nobody in the world to fight my battles for me; but no mercy is shown. Yet if a thousand of you sneer and say things against me, I will not be put down!

To the corruptions of christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others.

The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed thro' all time. Whether the power of the people or that of the "aristoi" should prevail were questions which kept the states of Greece and Rome in eternal convulsions, as they now schismatize every people whose minds and mouths are not shut up by the gag of a despot.

Beyond this day," he would claim, "no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side

La barbarie n est le contraire de la culture que dans le cadre de la hierarchie de pensee que celle-ci nous propose.

Ich wiederhole: Der Fortschritt hat alles für sich. Nur scheinbar ist er die Opposition. Der erhaltende Gegenwille ist es, der in Wahrheit immer und überall die Opposition bildet, der sich in der Verteidigung befindet und zwar in einer, wie er genau weiss, aussichtslosen Verteidigung.

Spiritul este acela care-l deosebeÈ™te pe om de orice alt? form? de via?? organic? deoarece omul este fiinÈ›a prin excelen?? rupt? de natur?, c?reia i se opune în mod evident.

a born objector, I saw that at once, down on the existing order; and that always gives me the impression that the person is spoilt—I can't help it.

The madman runs to the East and his keeper runs to the East, both are running to the East. Their purposes differ.

It's wrong because if you pick up a rifle, the Man picks up a machine gun, by the time you find some machine gun he's all set up to shoot rockets, begin to see a pattern?

But mob violence, like tourism, is a kind of communion. By its special magic a large number of lonely souls, however heterogeneous, can share the common property of opposition to what is.

In a realm where educational failure has long been the norm—schools in low-income minority neighborhoods—this is success, a remarkable success. What is equally remarkable is how unwelcome this success has been in many places. What has been especially remarkable is that it has been the most educationally successful charter schools that seem to have drawn the most hostility, both in words and in deeds.