Quotes About Opposition

As he went out into the world, writes Iremashvili, he took with him "a grim and bitter hatred against the school administration, the bourgeoisie, and all that existed in the country and represented tsarism.

This metaphorical depiction of the Soviet situation as a great wrestling match of opposing classes was at once a manifesto of Stalin's Leninism and a clear revelation of his lifelong need to "beat" in the twofold sense of "strike" and "be victorious.

Realize this: In your struggle for power you will stir up rivalries and create enemies. There will be people you cannot win over, who will remain your enemies no matter what.

Instead of internalizing a bad situation, externalize it and face your enemy. It is the only way out.

Your enemies, those you stand sharply against, will help you to forge a support base that will not desert you. Do not crowd into the center, where everyone else is; there is no room to fight in a crowd. Polarize people, drive some of them away, and create a space for battle.

Your first task as a strategist is to widen your concept of the enemy, to include in that group those who are working against you, thwarting you, even in subtle ways.

1658) REVERSAL

Not only because of the fact that . . . oppression usually increases if it is suffered calmly and without protest, but also because opposition gives us inner satisfaction, distraction, relief . . . Our opposition makes us feel that we are not completely victims of the circumstances. GEORG SIMMEL, 1858–1918

Mao actually encouraged China's disagreements with the Soviet Union and the United States; without clear-cut enemies, he believed, his people would lose any sense of what Chinese Communism meant. A sharply defined enemy is a far stronger argument for your side than all the words you could possibly put together.

All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely

You're not my enemy, but your Empire is.

An argument must have opposition if it is to prove itself, my son," she said. "One who argues truly learns the depth of his commitment through adversity. Did you not learn that trees grow roots most strongly when winds blow through them?

swimming naked in a river of fire churned to rapids by jagged boulders of ice.

You cannot make the land go against itself. Not for long; the land will rebel.

Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.

He felt himself, in a way, torn between two worlds: a solid, bourgeois world where ultimately everything was ordered and rational, as he was accustomed to from home, and an untrammelled one full of darkness, blood, and undreamt-of surprises.

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. –F. Scott Fitzgerald

Instead of going with the flow, he tried to fight it, became exhausted, and nearly drowned. The same thing happens with new investors.

You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.

the dark is your friend, isn't it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy . . . and it glowers in at you resentfully.

It's lovely when the dark is your friend, isn't it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy... and it glowers in at you resentfully.

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Every story needs a villain, she said grimly.