Quotes About Opposition

Part of the opposition to GMO technology is political and ideological, fuelled by hostility against the perceived ills of capitalism and globalization.

right-wing politicians

el combate es infinito contra el otro oculto en uno mismo.

There are, however, great problems with shame as a means of governing. For one thing, opposition does not disappear but only becomes unspeakable, making the public even less knowable to its rulers. For another, shame as a government weapon works only on people capable of feeling shame. It thus purges high-minded people from the opposition and ensures that, when the now-mysterious public does throw up an opposition, it will be led by shameless people and take a shameless form.

If we don't have a plausible plan for making revolution we can be sure that there will be somebody else there who will.

When you no longer have an enemy you find it in the mirror.

He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualities.

Thus a Western order that retrospectively mythologized its opposition to Nazism as opposition to the camp universe, and which denounced this too as the ultimate offence of Stalinism, patronised a regime in Spain that was, like the Soviet Union's, based on mass murder and its own gulag.

the enduring institutional and social opposition to the civic campaigns to find and identify the extra-judicially murdered in the unmarked graves where they still lie. Most recently this "Franco effect" has been apparent in the unprecedented – and largely successful – bid inside Spain to gag the judge who sought to challenge the impunity of the dictatorship.

Among the military rebels and all their immediate supporters there was an especially pathological fear and loathing of emancipated women

We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats...nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.

Two armies fighting each other are like one big army that commits suicide.

Due eserciti che si combattono, sono come un sol grande esercito che si suicida.

The minority is always right.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster -- that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

He had however one great advantage over both his Pilgrim and Puritan enemies, for he wrote a narrative of his adventures in a reckless and amusing fashion of which they were incapable, and thus has kept the laugh forever on his side.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

That is the way with wise people—they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process, we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.