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Quotes About Opposition

Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.
~ Mark Shields
[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.
~ Nat Hentoff
I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.
~ Norman Mailer
To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
~ Patrick Ness
I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
~ Oliver Stone
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
~ Ouida
I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.
~ Harry Belafonte
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
~ Henry David Thoreau
The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.
~ Herbert Hoover
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
~ Jean Rostand
This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
~ John Lewis
If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.
~ Paul Krugman
Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.
~ Beverly D'Angelo
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
~ Henry Ford
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.
~ Christopher Columbus
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
~ Hank Aaron
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
~ Yogi Berra
I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).
~ Gil Hodges
The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.
~ Arundhati Roy
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
~ Johnny Cash