Quotes About Opposition

The pleasant thing about fighting with the Spaniards, Mr Ellis,' said Jack, smiling at his great round eyes and solemn face, 'is not that they are shy, for they are not, but that they are never, never ready.

What can you do to ensure your magazines will "survive" a future hi-cap magazine ban? Don't vote for people who will ban them and assist those who oppose them.

the Western enablers of Islamism refuse to distinguish between Islamism and the faith; what's more, they portray Islamism as mainstream rather than as the fringe it has always been, and they portray all opposition to Islamism as an attack on Islam. As a consequence, today there is more willingness to criticize Islamism in Kurdistan and in Arab and Muslim countries than in the West. These

The importance of Marshall's pre–Pearl Harbor leadership is impossible to ignore. To cite one dynamic example, fully three-quarters (more than 45,000) of the Army's lieutenants and captains who fought in all theaters of World War II were graduates of the Officer Candidate Schools he fought so hard to establish before the United States entered the war, in the face of strong opposition from both Roosevelt and Stimson.

Empathy doesn't necessarily mean being self-sacrificing. Far from it. Understanding how someone else sees things doesn't imply that you'll act in his interest; in some situations — in war, for example — you want to do exactly the opposite.

When people who hold most of the levers of power do the same thing, their fantasizing isn't a delusion, it's a tool: a way to delegitimize opposition, to create excuses not just for disregarding but for punishing anyone who dares to criticize their actions.

What's remarkable about this prospect is that the wall is an utterly stupid idea. Even if you're bitterly opposed to immigration, legal or otherwise, spending tens of billions of dollars on an ostentatious physical barrier is neither a necessary nor an effective way to stop immigrants from coming.

In a story on the U.S.-brokered security pact between the government of Sudan and southern rebel groups, the New York Times referred to the war in Sudan as a pet cause of many American religious conservatives. It is hard to imagine the Times describing the plight of Soviet Jewry as a pet cause of American Jews, or opposition to apartheid as a pet cause of African-Americans.

You're the enemy. You're the one who's going to defeat yourself.

To be rejected—which I suppose is one of the easiest ways of making your mark, you have to come right out with something they see as directly and forcefully opposed to what they think they believe in. To be accepted you have to be seen and heard to appear to stand for what they think they believe in. To be neither one thing nor the other is probably unforgivable. But

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

Now although it is said that lords of war should be subservient in a nation to the civil governors of the people, it is a thing known and proved that the power goes always to the armed man and the man with weapons, and how can a weaponless man, even though he has the right, oppose a man of war in the same region with him, who has soldiers to his command?

The anger on the left - I've never seen anything like it. I mean, they're right now opposing everything. Democrats in the Senate are filibustering absolutely everything.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

To every argument an equal argument is opposed.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.