Quotes About Opposition

Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

The characteristic place to find a Christian is among his very enemies.

You may tell anyone you want," Khrushchev continued, "that we will never accept Adenauer as a representative of Germany. He is a zero. If Adenauer pulls down his pants and you look at him from behind you can see Germany is divided. If you look at him from the front, you can see Germany will not stand.

For those who were openly hostile toward her, no explanation would be understood.

In baseball, you respect the team you play, the guys on the other side. That's how the game works. Play to win but appreciate the opposition.

if they watched the soldiers and opposed them everywhere, the whites could do nothing.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition.

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.

Someday someone should make a study of the silence that falls inside a car when you're returning home after having flaunted your well-being, partly to edify the company, partly to deceive yourself. It's a silence that tolerates no sound, not even the radio, for who in that mute war of opposition would dare to turn it on?

Where Abbott was most himself, Shorten beat a retreat. "For Labor, national security is – and always will be – above politics," he says but what he means is that Labor will buckle whenever the government declares security is at stake.

Abbott joined the union, the Australian Journalists' Association. He led a little strike at the Bulletin and opposed a big strike at the Australian.

They hate me" I tell him. "Despise me. And they'll hate you too. Despise you. But we'll be here long after they're all gone.

In Texas, thirty-six out of the 86 "winning" GOP statehouse candidates faced no general election opponent. In Tennessee, thirty-seven of the 75 winning GOP candidates "won" without opposition. Florida, thirty-four out of 85. Add it all up, and even with all that was at stake in these states in 2022, millions of Americans had no choice when it came to who represented them in their statehouse. For those millions, democracy at the legislative level was indeed canceled.

For fourteen years, Martin Luther King, Jr. lived in the valley of the shadow of death. He was stoned. He was stabbed. His home was bombed. He did important work despite the knowledge that people plotted his death. He sacrificed his safety, not his life. Stop saying that he gave his life, offered himself as a sacrifice. That is a lie. He was murdered.