Quotes About Opposition

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

I am not for women but against men.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

A man can choose his enemies but not his supporters.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.