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Quotes About Opposition

He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week.
~ Chelsea Handler
He was king, if he didn't have enemies he wasn't doing it right.
~ S.E. Zbasnik, The King's Blood
The most diplomatic statement you can use for the person you hate:"If I would have water, and you would be on fire, ...I would drink IT.
~ Tuba Javed
Uh, yeah - how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
~ Nathaniel Lee
Obama's plan for "change": Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first time!
~ Michelle Templet
We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.
~ Phil Gramm
This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
~ Mark Rothko
I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
~ T. S. Eliot
There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
~ Terry Pratchett
To fly we have to have resistance.
~ Maya Lin
Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?
~ Gerard Way
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
~ William Hazlitt
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.
~ Marcus Eremita
I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.
~ Johnny Depp
Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans
~ Ralph Nader
Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.
~ Marcus Eremita
Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.
~ Marcus Eremita
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.
~ Rajneesh
If I had many who oppose me, it means I have stood for something sacred that only my heart knows.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
One definition of success is achieving what your haters don't want you to achieve. Them wanting you not to achieve it means it's worth a lot.
~ Mohammed Zeyara
Fight fire with fire.
~ Richard Williams II