Quotes About Opposition

A avea un duÈ™man e important nu numai pentru a ne defini identitatea, ci È™i pentru a ne procura un obstacol în raport cu care s? ne evalu?m sistemul de valori È™i s? ne ar?t?m, înfruntându-l, propria valoare. De aceea, atunci când duÈ™manul nu exist?, el trebuie construit.

When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.

Al parecer no podemos pasarnos sin el enemigo. La figura del enemigo no puede ser abolida por los procesos de civilización.

Tener un enemigo es importante no solo para definir nuestra identidad, sino también para procurarnos un obstáculo con respecto al cual medir nuestro sistema de valores y mostrar, al encararlo, nuestro valor. Por lo tanto, cuando el enemigo no existe, es preciso construirlo.

Badate bene che oggi per controbattere un'accusa non è necessario provare il contrario, basta delegittimare l'accusatore.

He is the one who taught how to distinguish contradictions in order to mediate them harmoniously. Once the trick was clear, they thought that Thomas's lesson was this: Where yes and no are opposed, create a "nes.

Es un círculo diabólico en el que el contestatario potencia aquello que cree destruir.

It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.

Congress is balking; in fact, they have got to the point where they won't do anything if they think it's what I want.

but no, if she had been here, he would have been driven to take the side against her. This wasn't perversity, he would insist; he was trying to see the problem from all of its many sides, and argued against all persons who wanted to see only one side.

The man in the middle gets the bullets from both directions; but I suppose we have to take our stand there all the same.

He understood that it is the fate of dictators to have to listen to flattery and to grow more susceptible to it. There are few who dare to say No in their presence, and it becomes less and less tolerable to them to hear that presumptuous word.

The working-class world was split into factions, which spent the greater part of their energies in fighting one another instead of concentrating upon the common enemy.

Every organization which stood in his way he proceeded to break, one after another, with such speed and ruthlessness that it left the opposition dizzy. The

As we shall see, the hardcore anticorset contingent included many (but by no means all) doctors and many (but by no means all) feminists. Medical ambivalence about corsetry may well have been related, at least, in part, to the profession's general opposition to feminist claims. But feminists and female doctors were themselves ambivalent about corsetry

for when two opposing groups become friendly, the perception that they are far more similar than they previously thought causes anxiety because this threatens their large-group identities. Enemies feel obliged to maintain what I call a principle of non-sameness. I will discuss this further later in this chapter.

The law fights against life, and life fights against the law.

Stalin's hatred for the Old Bolsheviks who opposed him was also a hatred for those aspects of Lenin's character that contradicted what was most essential in Lenin.

one can imagine what a candidate Trump would have done with the Wright-Obama connection had he been the 2008 Republican nominee.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

On the one side blind force, on the other a soul.

He opposed the hardness acquired during the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within them.

In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man.

To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.