Quotes About Opposition

If I've learned one thing in Spain, it's that we have to fight the Communists just as hard as the Fascists. They're both evil.

In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.

No se puede encarcelar a la oposición y seguir fingiendo que crees en la libertad.

What about America? They believe in democracy. Surely they'll sell guns to Spain?" "You'd think so, wouldn't you? But there's a well-financed Catholic lobby, led by a millionaire called Joseph Kennedy, opposing any help to the Spanish government. And a Democratic president needs Catholic support. Roosevelt won't do anything to jeopardize his New Deal.

Fascism offered false solutions, simplistically blaming groups such as Jews and Communists for complex problems such as unemployment and crime. She made merciless fun of the concept of the triumph of the will, likening the Führer and the Duce to playground bullies. They claimed popular support, but banned all opposition.

No tienen que complacer los deseos de todos los grupitos que se oponen al progreso porque quieren proteger las zonas donde anida la tetuda curruca moteada…

But many working-class Americans feel that integration is being shoved down their throats by Washington do-gooders such as all of us in this room.

El socialismo significa libertad, incluso para los contrarrevolucionarios.

Vyacheslav Molotov. But what could Molotov do? The Fascists

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.