Quotes About Opposition

La pierre voudrait se soustraire aux lois de la pesanteur ? Impossible. Impossible, si le mal voulait s'allier avec le bien.

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

we are all inevitably someone's adversary.

el arte de la dialéctica de dos voluntades opuestas que utilizan la fuerza para resolver su disputa».[1]

John Stuart Mill in 1848: "It is commerce which is rapidly rendering war obsolete, by strengthening and multiplying the personal interests which act in natural opposition to it.

The conservatives had started bringing demagoguery to the table on the [Afghan] war issue the previous fall [fall 2006]. Whenever opposition members criticized the war policy, assorted Tories accused them of being disloyal and of failing to support the troops....[Harper] was gaining the reputation of a leader who couldn't see a belt without wanting to hit below it.

Stephen] Harper had said he would use all legal means, and what [John] Baird suggested was an option the prome minister was considering. If the governor general had refused his request, he could have replaced her with a more compliant one, making the case to the Queen that the people of Canada were opposed in great numbers to a coalition replacing his government.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

Everyone has enemy; you will learn all that so soon as you are little older, and without cause she is mine

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

Don't take me for a fool, Eve. That's not why you did it. You made a political calculation. You know that the DA hates me and wants to be the next mayor. You figured that aligning yourself with him would benefit you more than being tied to a sheriff who is already smeared by a prison-beating scandal.

Our first task therefore is to try to grasp what the concept of the enemy really means. The enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the enemy always hates us for a reason, it is his reason and not ours. He does not hate us for our faults any more than for our virtues. He sees a different world from ours, and in the world he sees, we are his enemy. This is hard for us to comprehend, but we must if we are to grasp what the concept of the enemy means.

If Mr Mah is unable to defend himself, he deserves to lose. No country in the world has given its citizens an asset as valuable as what we've given every family here. And if you say that policy is at fault, you must be daft." - when asked about a Straits Times report that cited keen opposition interest in contesting Tampines GRC, which National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan helms, so that they can raise the affordability of public housing as an election issue

Never speak harshly of your enemy -- when you can kick 'im in the shins instead!

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

The difference between the two sides of the schism, is that one side puts out fires, and the other starts them.

In a manner of speaking," I said, using one of my favorite ways of saying "No, you are wrong.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies." ? Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

What chance did I stand between the Communists on one side and the Establishment on the other

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.