Quotes About Opposition

Adversity is the evil twin of reward.

Loud critics are silenced by loud success.

Use your enemy's arrows for firewood.

To a small subset of the population the very fact that you are willing to stand up and speak out makes you a target for unfair critique.

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

We manufactured fake dissent, to prevent real dissent.

So long as we remain a bitterly divided two-party state, we'll never want for TV villains.

In 2016 especially, news reporters began to consciously divide and radicalize audiences. The cover was that we were merely "calling out" our divisive new president, Donald Trump. But from where I sat, the press was now working in collaboration with Trump, acting in his simplistic mirror image, creating a caricatured oppositional demographic and feeding it content. As Trump rode to the White House, we rode to massive profits. The only losers were the American people

But somebody sure as hell's trying to start a war in this country. Liberal against conservative, city against country, pro-gun against gun control, pro-government against pro-freedom, black against white against brown, Christian against Muslim… There's no other explanation that makes sense.

Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper wrote after his testimony. "He is opposed to all forces that seek to curb or destroy individual liberty. 'Our highest aim,' said he, 'should be the cultivation of freedom of the individual, for therein lies the highest dignity of man. Tyranny is tyranny, and whether it comes from right, left, or center, it's evil.'"24

The danger was that the alienation from and antagonism toward American culture and society expressed by many on the right could turn into a general opposition to the constitutional order.

is better to incur the world's hatred, by testifying against its wickedness, than gain its good-will by going down the stream with it.

Vilifying opponents "is too much the practice of many of our sects and parties.

That list of yours… the enemy of my enemy doesn't have to be my friend, but it can still hurt my enemy.

excitation/depression, constriction/relaxation, atrophy/torpor.

The contingency of the future, which accounts for the violent acts of those in power, by the same token deprives these acts of all legitimacy, or equally legitimates the violence of their opponents. The right of the opposition is exactly equal to the right of those in power.

If one completely eliminates the concept of the end of history, then the concept of revolution is relativized; such is the meaning of "permanent revolution." It means that there is no definitive regime, that revolution is the regime of creative imbalance that there will always be other oppositions to sublate, that there must therefore always be an opposition within revolution.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.