Quotes About Opposition

And those who stand in our way," he added softly, "will not watch at all.

Moderate MPs hated McDonnell even more than they did Corbyn.

This [for opposition leaders to claim royal lineage], in a world ruled by a republic, was what revolution had come to mean.

You mean you would have me blow up something just because I didn't approve of it? What do you think I am, a vandal? A fascist? A fucking critic?

the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

They had it in for us, didn't they? Right from the beginning. Who'd have thought that we were so important?

the disposition to disagree, to reject and to dissent—however irritating it may be when taken to extremes—is the very lifeblood of an open society. We need people who make a virtue of opposing mainstream opinion.

Since anti-Communists ran the gamut from Trotskyists to neo-Fascists, critics of the USSR frequently found themselves sharing a platform or a petition with someone whose politics in other respects they abhorred. Such unholy alliances were a prime target for Soviet polemic and it was sometimes difficult to persuade liberal critics of Communism to voice their opinions in public for fear of being tarred with the brush of reaction.

The intellectual opposition in Central Europe had little immediate impact. This surprised no-one: the new realism of the Seventies-era dissidents encompassed not just a disabused grasp of Socialism's failure but also a clear-sighted appreciation of the facts of power. There

place of the male proletariat there were now posited the candidacies of 'blacks', 'students', 'women' and, a little later, homosexuals. Since none of these constituents, at home or abroad, was separately represented in the institutions of welfare societies, the new Left presented itself quite consciously as opposing not merely the injustices of the capitalist order but above all the 'repressive tolerance' of its most advanced forms: precisely

But the Soviet leader, unlike his western counterparts, had no good options. He could not realistically hope to prevent German unity except by reversing his benign public announcements of recent years and seriously damaging his own credibility. He did initially oppose the absorption of a united Germany into NATO;

Oh, you're so wrong, Henry," she said. "In fact, it's only just begun.

for every expert there is an equal and opposite anti-expert.

Fascism, as Ortega y Gasset says, is always 'A and not A'.

From all accounts, it seems the faithful opposition is reduced to Gideon's 300. The day has arrived for Christians to engage the battle...From now on, true Christians will engage the battle of ideas in academy. The time for giving up ground is over. Now we must fight. We must engage the [B]iblical worldview vigorously in the world of great literature. The greatests wars ever fought in history are not those fought by sword or artillery. The greatest battles are engaged in the realm of ideas

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

We all have a job to do—a commissioning fueled by the forces of heaven, a spiritual assignment that will be opposed at every step by the forces of hell.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into.

James 4:6: "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

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Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.