Quotes About Opposition

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

If we negate ourselves and completely plunge into the objective world around us, all oppositions cease. The phrase goes, "The holy man has no self; and, therefore, everything becomes the holy man." By making ourselves empty and plunging deep into the surrounding world to be integrated with things, the surrounding world will in turn become ourselves. We and the world thus will be one, and we will be masters everywhere.

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

For me, then, nobility is synonymous with a life of effort, ever set on excelling oneself, in passing beyond what one is to what one sets up as a duty and an obligation. In this way the noble life stands opposed to the common or inert life, which reclines statically upon itself, condemned to perpetual immobility, unless an external force compels it to come out of itself. Hence we apply the term mass to this kind of man- not so much because of his multitude as because of his inertia.

Darkness is clever, insidious, and patient. It wants to win. And it wins by snuffing out the light. It's so literal that you can't stand it.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

At heart men are antagonistic to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It is not antagonism to creeds or points of view, but antagonism encountered for My sake. Many of us awaken antagonism by our way of stating things; we have to distinguish between being persecuted for some notion of our own and being persecuted "for My sake.

The things that are right, noble, and good from the natural standpoint are the very things that keep us from being God's best. Once we come to understand that natural moral excellence opposes or counteracts surrender to God, we bring our soul into the center of its greatest battle.

THE LAW OF OPPOSITION "To him who overcomes . . . ." Revelation 2:7     Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life.

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and God-like. Mankind has the choice to make. There are only two poles, and there is no middle way.

alumbrar la nueva era tiene enfrente, siempre, el freno descomunal de los privilegiados.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Nunca una clase conservadora, por simple odio a quien no la trituraba pudiendo hacerlo, ansió tanto la caída de un hombre».

Ante la locura, la contralocura.

How could, it was felt, people be so opposed to modernity, and all the many goods it had to offer to people around the world: equality, liberty, prosperity, toleration, pluralism and representative government.

During the Civil War, traumatized combatants developed a condition that they called "soldier's heart."8 The violence that results in soldier's heart shatters a person's sense of self and community, and war is not the only setting in which violence is done: violence is done whenever we violate another's integrity. Thus we do violence in politics when we demonize the opposition or ignore urgent human needs in favor of politically expedient decisions.

Taken to extremes, scapegoating feeds the political pathology called fascism, a movement ideology centered on a "radical and authoritarian nationalism" that actively suppresses "openness and opposition" to the movement and the nation-state it hopes to commandeer.15 When this diseased brand of nationalism rushes in to fill our inner emptiness, its mildest manifestation is the belief that nation's critics are unpatriotic, even traitorous. At

Where there are no visible conflicts, there is no freedom," Montesquieu said.

Controllers think differing ideas and views are personal opposition to be rejected and destroyed. And, since Controllers identify themselves with their prescriptions, it becomes important to them that others be dissuaded of theirs. Their success is measured in conversions.

People who act against others truly act in a backwards way, doing the opposite of what they would need to do to realize their goal.

No, señor. The deeper you push the iron into them, the harder they fight you.

Just like Republicans have Democrats, vampires have the sun, and cats have everything under the sun, I have natural enemies.

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.