Quotes About Opposition

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

A man who makes no enemies is never a positive force.

It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.

To all my enemies, I will destroy you.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

When you star arises, your cloud of opposition awakens

Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.

it is not the oppositions a man face that determine his rise or fall in life but his tenacity to dare to soar and to pursue to higher heights

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal -- they have to live off each other--while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

In this country people don't vote for, they vote against.

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

Een oude theologische strijdmethode: een stelling poneren, zo belachelijk en dom, dat oppositie ertegen automatisch even belachelijk en dom wordt.

Governor McCall desired to go to the United States Senate. There was some feeling that he should continue his gubernatorial task. But McCall understood Coolidge's ambition to be governor. McCall realized that Coolidge had not announced his gubernatorial candidacy out of deference to McCall. The governor apparently desired the excuse of opposition to retire gracefully as much as Coolidge desired to be governor.

The vision of Christ that thou dost seeIs my vision's greatest enemy.