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Quotes About Opposition

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
~ Anna Quindlen
Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
~ Omar Khayyam
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
~ Christopher Lasch
Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
~ Bernard Kerik
Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Whatever it is, I'm against it.
~ Groucho Marx
Only dead fish go with the current.
~ Unknown
A man who wishes to better himself is opposite a man who is better.
~ Unknown
If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.
~ Unknown
For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies
~ Laurence Sterne
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it
~ Max Planck
As long as you know that God is for you, it doesn't matter who is against you.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.
~ Unknown
Mother, who had never missed a chance to fulminate against the evils of our time including privatisation, Jeremy Clarkson, and pay-day loans.
~ Marina Lewycka
El odio sería para mí una salvación y a veces lo echo de menos como a un antípoda de la felicidad.
~ Mario Benedetti
For opposing this and similar moves, dedicated Catholics like Bishop John Fisher and Sir Thomas More would go to the block. For urging Henry on toward a more complete Reformation, dedicated Protestants like Robert Barnes and John Frith would join them.
~ Unknown
So thank God for opposition. It forces us to pray like it depends on god, which it does. And it reconditions our reflexes in the process.
~ Mark Batterson
There is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to be a leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for enemies all those who are well off under the old order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.
~ Unknown
A revealing perspective of the Biblical panorama emerges when one recognizes that the entire cosmic drama is one in which Satan repeatedly attempts to thwart God's plan. As God incrementally reveals each additional detail, Satan can more closely focus his subsequent attacks.
~ Unknown
Stejn? jako nejsou všichni, kte?í Putina podporují, našimi nep?áteli, nejsou ani všichni, kte?í mu oponují, našimi p?áteli.
~ Unknown