Quotes About Opposition

Alle standpunten toelaten, de meest verschillende overtuigingen, de meest tegenstrijdige meningen, veronderstelt een algemene toestand van vermoeidheid en onvruchtbaarheid. Daardoor komt dit wonder tot stand: de tegenstanders leven samen - maar juist omdat zij geen tegenstanders meer kunnen zijn; [...] Een religie dooft uit wanneer zij waarheden tolereert die haar uitsluiten; en de god in wiens naam men niet meer moord is beslist dood.

Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies.

Mr. Irving, you and I could get along and accomplish some things here together if you didn't maintain this basic attitude of `us against them.'" I shrugged. "I have that attitude because that's exactly the way it is." "It needn't be. If we cooperated more — " "If my aunt had balls, Mr. Grzgorek, she'd be my uncle.

Two unarmed men against six loaded for bear. We need to even the odds." "Got a plan?" asked Giordino. "I certainly do." Giordino gave the little man with the academic, nerdy look a bemused stare. "Is it evil, rotten, and sneaky?" Gunn nodded, with an impish grin. "All that, and more."   THE

We rebelled by criminal methods against the joyfulness of the new life." —LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI QUOTING BUKHARIN AT HIS TRIAL, IN MAIN CURRENTS OF MARXISM, VOL. 3, P. 82

in those days I construed absence of explicit opposition as a whole-hearted endorsement.

The only answer to Hitler was a contrary violence.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.

All is war.

Those who cannot adopt or compete in the dominant status order — closely associated with the acquisition of knowledge and the mastery of complex cultural performances — make opposition to this order a badge of pride and recognition. The proliferation of conspiracy theories is an indicator of this process. People make themselves believe in them, because it induces them into an alternative world of status and rank.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.

What all tendencies, branches and splinters of anarchism—and there are quite a few—have in common is their opposition to every form of hierarchy and inequality. It

But going against the mkt., everything is turned on its head: the more a stock is depreciated, the larger the profit, and vice versa.

When somebody's too smooth like he is, then somebody else is going to get the rough of it I always say.

Overall, your want to present yourself to your child as an ally, empathetic to his feelings, and responsive to his needs - even when your needs are conflicting. If your goal is to enlist your child's cooperation in changing his behavior, find ways to be as aligned with his emotionally as possible. By earning your child's trust, you are much more likely to reach him with your point of view than if you approach him in opposition.

The cardinal used to say, Cromewll will do in a week what will take another man a year, it is not worth your while to block him or oppose him. If you reach out to grip him he will not be there, he will have ridden twenty miles while you are pulling your boots on.

So often in council he has taken Katherine's part, as if he were one of her appointed lawyers. 'You make this argument, my lords,' he has said, 'but the dowager princess will allege…' And 'Katherine will refute you, thus.' Not because he favours her cause but because it saves time; as her opponent, he enters into her concerns, he judges her stratagems, he reaches every point before she does. It

Because I'm afraid of what may happen to you. You have no duty to me. We found ourselves—no, we put ourselves—on opposite sides. I never expected, I never dreamed, that our friendship could last so long with circumstances as they are.

The great story… is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President.

Opposites are cures for opposites.