Quotes About Opposition

President Trump's eyes light up when strongmen steamroll opposition, brush aside legal constraints, ignore criticism, and do whatever it takes to get their way.

At many levels, contempt has become a defining characteristic of American politics. It makes us unwilling to listen to what others say—unwilling, in some cases, even to allow them to speak. This stops the learning process cold and creates a ready-made audience for demagogues who know how to bring diverse groups of the aggrieved together in righteous opposition to everyone else.

Democrats pleaded with their countrymen to recognize the Communists' hypocrisy—that the same partisans who bragged about opposing Fascism were now aping its techniques. The Communists were simply replacing pictures of Hitler with portraits of Stalin and, like Mussolini's Blackshirts, attacking the press, smearing political rivals, demanding total loyalty from party members, and threatening anyone who stood in their way.

Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was "bully," and on the day of the Normandy invasion, Franklin Roosevelt prayed to the Almighty for a "peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men." By contrast, President Trump's eyes light up when strongmen steamroll opposition, brush aside legal constraints, ignore criticism, and do whatever it takes to get their way.

They will seek to undermine you at every turn.

The left-right political dichotomy serves liberalism by not challenging it. Democracy sustains the status quo by offering the illusion of choice with no choice. Genuine opposition can only emerge if there is an alternative story with which to counter the current mythos.

It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.

They knew they were like two grains of yeast in a sea of lethargic dough—two grains of salt in a vast tureen of insipid broth.

FALDER is sitting exactly opposite to the JUDGE, who, raised above the clamour of the court, also seems unconscious of and indifferent to everything.

oust a legitimate government in alliance with its rebels could be justified.

forming the ideas that were to pit him so vehemently against Mary in later years.

In Paris, Elizabeth's accession was greeted with unconcealed scorn.

In particular, he urged his sister to crush the Protestants, whom he regarded as political insurgents.

Already several of the lords were defecting from Moray and joining her camp.

Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.

Certainly many Northern cities deplored what was going on in the South. But when Martin Luther King, who had been so praised in the North for the work he did in the South, came to work in the cities of the North, the very officials who had praised him sometimes led opposition to his work locally.

That's why I hate them. They force you to be like them—or else you're their enemy.

I'm not an anti-feminist! Of course you're not, Garp told her. They make everything so black and white. Of course they do, said Garp. That's why I hate them. They force you to be like them - or else you're their enemy. Yes, yes, Garp said. I wish I could talk.

He resented my worldview rather actively.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift— "THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, MORAL AND DIVERTING

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Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

considered authority, the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction...

If you're not happy, the jerks win.