Quotes About Opposition

As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire,' proclaimed Churchill defending the partisanship of the British Gazette in a Commons debate on the Strike on 7 July. 'When you are in a great difficulty and in a fight of this kind, however unfortunate it may be, it is absolutely no use people pretending they do not know what side they are on.

There are two people who sink U-boats in this war, Talbot,' he said. 'You sink them in the Atlantic and I sink them in the House of Commons. The trouble is that you are sinking them at exactly half the rate I am.

There is something rather wonderful about the fact that, at a particularly perilous point in a war for the continued independent existence of the nation, the British Prime Minister could be upbraided by his wife for being short tempered; we can be fairly certain that no one was saying this to Churchill's opposite number in the Reich Chancellery.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

Some people have a personality disorder where they just have to go against the herd, right or wrong. They're so committed to their own lone-wolf image that...Well, put it this way: if the others suddenly came over to their side, they'd switch sides.

It's worth rushing to the ends of the world, to oppose aggression and evil, isn't it, Witcher?

I'm not going to be pushed around by some Oswald Mosley wannabe with delusions of grandeur.

While Paul was a man of great faith, he was not a man of great patience or tolerance for those who opposed the gospel. But that was okay. God didn't choose him for his manners.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant.

In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women.

behind every great man is a woman dedicated to his greatness whilst behind every great woman is a man dedicated to bringing her down.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

You know you're doing something right when you've reduced hordes of liberals to blind, sputtering rage.

I refused to pair with a Tory MP, I refused all foreign junkets and I've never had a drink in a Westminster bar.

Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.