Quotes About Opposition

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Our weakness consists not in this, that we are in opposition to others, but in this, that we are not completely so; that we are not entirely severed from them, that we still seek a "Communion", a "Bond", that in communion we have an ideal. One faith, one god, one idea, one hat, for all! If all were brought under one hat, certainly no one would need to take off his hat for another anymore.

Its entry on the scene was not generally peaceful. A flood of mistrust, sometimes of hatred, above all of moral indignation, regularly opposed itself to the first innovator.

To fly we have to have resistance.

You will pit one family, gathering, community, and nation against another until all are destroyed.

Manda and Sara are annoying because their whole belief system is in opposition to my own. They live by a Grand Theft Auto morality, by which lying, whoring, and stealing scores innumerable points.

But we need to search for and find, what we need to own and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing, is a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governments, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of forcing accountability. The politics of slowing things down. In the present circumstances, I'd say the only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

Strange things happen when we stand face to face with our enemy, don't they, Phaedra of Alonso?

people hate change and, more than anything, they hate those who try to change things.

You say potato; I say potahto...' 'I say integrity; you say deceit.

James Shannon delivered the convention's opening address, which set the tone for the two-day event. His remarks were nothing if not unequivocal. Any threat to the biblically sanctioned right to hold slaves, Shannon assured his audience, "is just cause of war between the separate states." Those who advocated restrictions on slavery he denounced as "liars, yelping curs, assassins, knaves, Negro thieves and horse thieves."14 After

The man who runs may fight again.

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

If the "world" believed something, then you had to believe its opposite to be righteous. It made people rage against everything from a global economy to public schooling and immunizations, but mostly I thought it was just an excuse not to have to do the work that seeing shades of grey requires.

There can be no light without generating heat," adds Durango. "And confrontation generates heat and light.

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

It was like he was being pulled in a single direction, but by two diametrically opposed forces—if such a thing could be possible.

It helped that municipal employees tore down opposition posters, and that the only independent pollster, Levada, was closed down two weeks before the election.

Precum magne?ii cu aceea?i polaritate, cu cât încerci s?-i apropii, cu atât se dep?rteaz? mai mult. Sau precum atomii care se atrag unul c?tre cel?lalt, dar se resping când încerci s?-i pui unul lâng? altul. Ca dou? persoane prinse în u?ile turnante - oricât de mult dorim s? ne întâlnim, nu e chip s? se întâmple.