Quotes About Opposition

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

A prosecutor is a stolid carpenter who patiently hammers his wood into place as he builds a house, one board at a time. A defense lawyer is a nihilistic vandal who finds the support beam and pulls down the house before it's complete.

A few days after Paul was banned from Madison Square Garden, over six thousand people showed up at a Harlem rally for him. And though the leadership of the black establishment either failed to support Paul or joined in the attacks against him, a significant portion of black public opinion became even more sympathetic.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

all that we know, that is, all we have the power to do, has finally turned against what we are.

Whether in science or the arts, if we look for the source of an achievement we can observe that what a man does either repeats or refutes what someone else has done — repeats it in other tones, refines or amplifies or simplifies it, loads or overloads it with meaning; or else rebuts, overturns, destroys, and denies it, but thereby assumes it and has invisibly used it. Opposites are born from opposites.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

It seemed to him she understood but was not willing to concede they might be on the same side against anyone or anything.

The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss.

Frente a dos proposiciones diametralmente opuestas, el cerebro cree la menos incomprensible: es más fácil suponer que el universo ha existido por toda la eternidad que concebir a un ser eterno con la capacidad de crearlo.

he followed the ball down to the other end of the court, stopped, stared at me with contempt, and then did the strangest thing. He winked. Like he was flicking me off with his eyelid.

if the enemy goes undetected and is not exposed, he will gain the advantage by default.

Satan hates for any person to have the eyes of their understanding opened through the revelation of God's Word.

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

And then he decided. "Fuck that shit," he told his staff. "I'll just fight him.

So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can't be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated.

When a society pretends to even a shred of civility — and in the bourgeois century, most societies did — it is hard to predict just where or when oppositional humor will overstep the bounds of propriety or of the law.

When Kevin Rudd announced that Australia would bid for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council Tony Abbott announced his immediate opposition. The bid would be abandoned in the event of a Coalition victory at the 2010 election, he pledged. The total cost was then estimated at perhaps $40 million, though ended up at around $25 million.16 For perspective, the Victorian Government spent $56.7 million to subsidise the Grand Prix in 2012 alone.17

Or, as Philip Ruddock, Howard's immigration minister, put it to the author: 'Indonesia will work with you if you don't decide to embarrass them over it.' Yet this is exactly what the Abbott opposition had done. It violated the Howard precedent and the Ruddock rule by broadcasting the tow-back plan loud and long.

One answer to the transitory nature of imperial rule, in short, is that there is a Newtonian third law of empires. The exercise of imperial power generates an opposite and equal reaction among those affected by it, until they so reorganize themselves as to blunt the imperial edge.

You cannot really debate with somebody who truly despises you.

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.