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Quotes About Opposition

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
~ Unknown
In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres
~ Unknown
We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.
~ Margaret Landon
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
~ Margaret Thatcher
feminists hate me don't they? And i don't blame them. For i hate feminism. It is poison.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Rayne, why is it you feel the need to argue with every single thing I say?" "Because every single thing you say is usually stupid and ridiculous.
~ Mari Mancusi
I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.
~ Unknown
Each of them, living, was intolerable to the other, and in fury, they fell to it.
~ Unknown
These bridges support revelations in opposition to repudiations and personal testimonies challenging thematic stereotypes. Although
~ Unknown
There is no danger greater for the State than that of self-styled intellectuals. You would have been better off remaining illiterate. - King Hassan II of Morocco, quoted in the Preface
~ Marilyn Hacker
Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.
~ Unknown
On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.
~ Gustave Flaubert
We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.
~ Frank Pavone
If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
~ Rollo May
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~ George Orwell
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
~ George Orwell
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
~ Joseph Stalin
If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
~ A. J. P. Taylor
Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
~ Abe Fortas
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
~ Jacob Bronowski
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.
~ Jalal Talabani