Quotes About Opposition

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

Liberals never, ever should be back in power. Never.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

Never undervalue the enemies, especially if they are stupid.

Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.

Maxon: "To be clear, no one agrees with you."America: "To be clear, I don't care.

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

The polls are still showing the two parties running neck and neck. 'Labour might actually make it,' Henry says. 'The Tories aren't going to be able to command the confidence of the House.

Sólo una oposición legal verdaderamente actuante y eficaz puede hacer inútil e injustificada la dañina oposición armada, con su capacidad de extorsión y de terrorismo.

Indeed, our concept of "East versus West"—or, as it has been called, "the clash of civilizations"—arises from Greek opposition to Persia.

Whole divisions entered Finland with no worthwhile intelligence estimates of their opposition, guided by hopelessly inaccurate maps, yet fully burdened with truckloads of propaganda material including reams of posters and brass bands.

As Nachmanides championed the cause of Maimonides against his enemies, so he took up the cause of Alfazi, against Sarachya Halevi and Abraham Ben David, who attacked Alfazi's Talmudic productions.

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.

Take but degree away, untune that string,And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meetsIn mere oppugnancy: the bounded watersShould lift their bosoms higher than the shores,And make a sop of all this solid globe.

My near'st and dearest enemy.

O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;Possess them not with fear; take from them nowThe sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbersPluck their hearts from them.

Stemming it with hearts of controversy.

Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.