Quotes About Opposition

Most of the clubs who have had success against Barcelona have relied on a highly organised and disciplined defence.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Let my enemies devour each other.

I hope to outlive my enemies.

The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

When you encounter the unbelievers, blows to necks it shall be until, once you have routed them, you are to tighten their fetters.

A leader of the state legislature, Virginia Peterson, opposed the path of Interstate 215 around the southeast quadrant of Salt Lake City on the grounds that it would take the land and house of a constituent who happened to be a famous local artist. The artist, Ms. Peterson claimed, depended on the particular light on the property for his painting. She was able to delay construction for a decade.

No, you can forget their going anywhere.

the hipster effect occurs, he suggests, when people try to make decisions in opposition to the majority. Because no one knows exactly what other people are going to do next, and information can be noisy or delayed, there can also be periods of brief "synchronization," in which nonconformists fail to be "disaligned with the majority.

In the North, however, the wartime absence from Congress of southern representatives had the benefit of eliminating the opposition that had prevented federal aid to expand the railroad westward.

Some people say that you should fight fire with fire but I say you should fight fire with water.

Fuck you, Taft.

If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.

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

There's no discipline or strategy, nothing depersonalized: its mayhem and each side intensely hates the other.

Juuri tällä hetkellä hän halusi tapella kenen kanssa tahansa, vain tapella ja huutaa ja olla vakuuttunut siitä, että kaikki muut olivat väärässä ja että hänen oli annettava niille selkään.

Yo escribo este manifiesto para mostrar que pueden ejecutarse juntas las acciones opuestas, en una sola y fresca respiración; yo estoy en contra de la acción; a favor de la continua contradicción, y también de la afirmación, no estoy ni a favor ni en contra y no lo explico porque odio el sentido común.

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

I am not in love with a dragon I am sworn to hate.

Every great movie has conflict.

Gluppit the prawling strangles, there!