Quotes About Opposition

Reactionaries are recruited from among the front-row spectators of a revolution.

Today's conservatives are nothing more than liberals who have been ill-treated by democracy

The reactionary's objection is not discussed; it is disdained.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way.

Having strong enemies is a blessing.

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

an adequate theory of language as a game should distinguish between these two varieties of language, one of which is intended primarily to convey information and the other primarily to impose a point of view against a willful opposition. I do not know if any philologist has yet made the technical observations and theoretical propositions which are necessary to distinguish these two classes of language for our purposes, but I am quite sure that they are substantially different forms.

He has repeatedly shown that by explaining neurological "oddities," he can shed light on the functioning of normal brains. "I hate crowds in science," he tells me. He doesn't fancy large scientific meetings either. "I tell my students, when you go to these meetings, see what direction everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don't polish the brass on the bandwagon." Beginning

The Catholic Church was the first institutional bastion in the U.S. to oppose eugenic sterilization, not just on account of its opposition to birth control, but also because of its theological commitment to the sanctity of all human life regardless of eugenic "fitness.")

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

The opposite of war, the true war, is poetry

When asked what his greatest life achievement was, Norman Thomas replied: "The intellectual theft of every one of my ideas by the Democratic Party."

one group's resistance fighter is another group's rogue.

Fakat, hay?r: Adnan Targa, kendisi de?ildi ki; Adnan Targa bir dekand? ve 'statüko'nun her ne pahas?na olursa olsun savunmas?n? yapmak durumundayd?.

The Bronx? No Thonx!

the point here was appropriation via antithesis.

Kto? taki jak pan b?dzie budzi? niech?? i nienawi??, bo b?dzie jasno przypomina?, ?e wizja ?wiata bia?o-czarnego jest wizj? k?amliw? i niszcz?c?.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.