Quotes About Opposition

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.