Quotes About Opposition

People say be real, tell what is the truth and be frank but the problems is when you do that people get angry and go against you.

The enemy is not fighting you because you are weak. He's fighting you because you are strong.

History has it that every positive motion faced a negative opposition and only the strongest survived.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Life is a boxing match you're going to have enemies throwing punches at you left right and centre. But learn to pick up your gloves and fight them back.

Only the victor had the potential of transcending an earlier opposition between the two, by defining both as survivors of the civil war. To transcend the terms of the earlier opposition is to forge a new community of survivors of the civil war.

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

I am besieged by contradiction.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Never forget," a Stranger said to me once in the lobby of the Midland Hotel in Manchester, "that only dead fish swim with the stream.

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

How dare you both sit there and criticize and condemn me?

Or if we can't blame the main opposition, find a new scapegoat – a section of society with no power, no voice. Blame the travellers or the noughts or the immigrants. Cheap, gutter politics to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Having begun their protest by demanding that the realm should be governed only by 'native-born men', the opposition now insisted on nothing less than the total expulsion of all foreigners, 'never to return'.

This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.

genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation of its own works.

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...

an authentic life is a life that is aware of and willing to engage its own oppositions, and honorably inhabits that threshold where the light and darkness, the masculine and feminine and all the beginnings and endings of one's life engage.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.