Quotes About Opposition

Murray Bookchin spent a lifetime opposing the rapacious ethos of grow-or-die capitalism. The nine essays in this book represent the culmination of that labor: the theoretical underpinning for an egalitarian and directly democratic ecological society, with a practical approach for how to build it.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Admittedly, the enemies often come from within. The greatest teacher is often meant with too much competition and opposition from their own outstanding students.

As long as we have God and the devil in the scriptures, competitions will never cease to exist.

Criticism is for the lazy who are against the progress of others.

Nationalism is so beautiful for nationalists. At the same time, you are really opposed to the unification of the world.

Socrates roamed and surrounded by the oppositions in Athens, like a lion that's surrounded by hyenas in the forest.

There are so many who rebel from righteousness for the sake of rebelling. They have an empty cause.

Those twin beliefs give rise not to a meek acquiescence to injustice in the world but to a robust determination to oppose it. English

You know history better than I do, you've been teaching all your life. Without real opposition you get dictators down the line. Idi, Amin, Mugabe. No democracy without opposition.

My positions are very clear: I never hide the fact that I categorically oppose a Palestinian state inside our country

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

If I am the menace, then you must be the trouble.

I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Patients with symptom neuroses feel on the side of the therapist in opposing a problematic part of the self. They rarely require a long period to develop a shared perspective. In contrast, those whose problems are complexly interwoven with their personality may easily feel alone and under attack.

It seems that Peter is saying the goal of apologetics is not just to present better arguments but to exhibit a better character, especially when suffering hostility and opposition.

the disability rights movement is almost unified in opposing assisted suicide—precisely because disabled people know they are the prime targets of the death movement.

He would expect me to flee from him. Therefore, I would not. I would flee towards him.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them

We must continue to open in the face of tremendous opposition. No one is encouraging us to open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

It follows, then, that you and I cannot really expect to glide through life, coolly air-conditioned, while naively petitioning: "Lord, give me experience but not grief, a deeper appreciation of happiness but not deeper sorrow, joy in comfort but not in pain, more capacity to overcome but not more opposition; and please do not let me ever feel perplexed while on thine errand. Then let me come quickly and dwell with thee and fully share thy joy.

Speaking on not always understanding the counsel of God's prophets, nor finding it easy to take] ... even though it is true that there must be an "opposition in all things," none of us has the personal obligation to provide that opposition.